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ORATION OF GENERAL JOHN S. PRESTON, 


Delivered before the Association November 10th, 1870. 


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FIRST AND SECOND ANNUAL MEETINGS 





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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 


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ORATION OF GENERAL JOHN 8. PRESTON, 


Delivered before the Association November 10th, 1870. 


CHARLESTON: 
WALKER, EVANS & COGSWELL, PRINTERS, 
Nos. 3 Broad and 109 East Bay Streets. 
1870. 





FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 
SURVIVORS? ASSOCIATION 


OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 


Sour CAROLINA Hatt, 
CHARLESTON, November 18th, 1869. 


In response to an invitation from the Survivors’ Association 
of Charleston District, delegates from similar organizations 
throughout the State met in convention at noon this day, at 
the Hall of the South Carolina Society. , 

The Convention was called to order by Colonel Edward 
McCrady, Jr., on whose motion General Joseph B. Kershaw 
took the chair, and Captain Pierre Bacot and Mr. T. Pinckney 
Lowndes were requested to act as Secretaries. 

In explanation of the purposes for which the Convention was 
called, the Chairman read the following Circular from the 
‘Committee of the Survivors’ Association of Charleston District, 


and preamble and resolutions under which that Committee 


“were appointed. 


; 
Survivors’ AssocriaTion. CHARLESTON DistRIcT, 
Cuarueston, 8. C., August 12, 1869. 


| Dear Sir :—The Resolutions enclosed will explain to you the 
objects of this communication. 

_ The period comprised between March, 1861, and May, 1865, 
/is remarkable for events the most stupendous of this century. 
In these great transactions, the late Confederate army played 
a part which history can scarcely chronicle without seeming to 
borrow of romance. And yet truth should be told, and such 
means appealed to as will obviate the possibility of aspersion. 
The mode of reaching this end is suggested by the Resolutions. 
Local Associations can accomplish much in preserving records 
and reports, but their influence and effect must necessarily be 
confined to the locality. What is desired, is a generalization of 
this idea. A State Association of Survivors, composed of dele- 
‘gates from the local bodies, to be perpetual, and organized to 
work out the objects set forth in the third Resolution, seems 
















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most likely to accomplish the object. The Gontedennen wa 
crushed in the struggle, and not the least among the evils 
her people have suffered, is the perversion of all which 
thought and did. The Pulpit, the Rostrum, the Press have 
been laid under contribution for this purpose. The min 
the young even are sought to be poisoned at the fountain, | 
false and pernicious statements. The very school books. 
used as vehicles to blacken the memory of the Confederat 
cause, and establish a prejudice where an appeal to reason wou 
fail. A reliable and trustworthy depositary of+ Narrati 
Reports, and all other available documents, illustrative of t th 
career of the late war, and the Confederacy which it sought 1 
save, is the surest mode of securing for the future historian t 
materials out of which the authentic story of the Lost Cause 
to be woven. ae 
We owe it to ourselves, to the gallant Dead, to the trut Ds 
History, to Posterity, to the Women of the land, and, above ¢ 
to that Humanity of which we are a part, and which i is alwa 
ennobled by the contemplation of Freedom and of earnest a 
heroic effort, that the truthful incidents of that mighty str 
for Honor and Constitutional Right shall live forever. 
In the name of all these, we ask you to exert your infl 
in your District, to carry out the design of the Resoluti 
Your notice, at as early a day as pa of this commu 
ication, will confer a favor upon 
Yours, very respectfully, &., &c., 
EDWARD McCRADY, JR., President, 
C. IRVINE WALKER. Be 
B. H. RUTLEDGE. Sa 
T. G. BARKER. “4 
J. M. KINLOCH. 
F. K. HUGER. 
JAS. ARMSTRONG, Jr., Sec. and Treas. 


At the Bbgalee Meeting of the Survivors’ Asso 
Charleston District, held on Tuesday, July 13th, the fo 
Preamble and Rosplutions were unanimously adopted: 


Wuerreas, The events of the late war between the Con 
erate and United States of America are now fresh in the 
of its survivors, and as many records do now exist whi 
and neglect will certainly destroy, and as it is highly desi 
to have these records and these recollections put in sue ns 
stantial form as to resist the ravages of time. 

Anp WueEreas, We have no government which will ¢ c 
and preserve the ‘histor y of those transactions of which ¥ e 
proud, it is, therefore, the duty of all South Carolinians to ¥ place 
the history ‘of the late war in its true li ght before the world, m 


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order that those who fought and died for their country may 
have not only the reward of their distinguished patriotism, but 
the justice which their achievements deserve. 

_ Anp Wuereas, While the Survivors’ Association of any single 
District may do much in collecting and preserving these records, 
yet because of the intimate association existing during the war 
between all the troops of the State, the work will become pro- 
portionally less onerous and much more effective if the Sur- 
_vivors of the whole State were to unite in a common effort; 

therefore, be it 

Resolved, Ist. That the Survivors’ Association of Charleston 
District earnestly invite the Survivors of each District in the 
State, where associations of record do not now exist, to form 
District Associations composed of the Survivors of the Confed- 
erate Army and Navy, to collect and preserve the records of the 
Tate war. 

_ 2nd. That the various District Associations be invited to send 
five delegates to a Convention to meet at our Hall in Charleston 
‘on Thursday, November 18th, 1869, to form a State Survivors’ 
Association, for the purposes set forth in the next resolution. 

" 8rd. That the primary object of the proposed State Survi- 
yors’ Association is the preservation of all matters of history 
connected with the late war. 

' That the proposed means of accomplishing this object is the 
establishment of a State Bureau, under the control of the State 
Association, where all original matter shall be regularly and 
conveniently filed away for the reference of such persons as the 
Association may see fit. 

That a competent person shall be employed to take charge of 
this Bureau. 

_ That the expenses shall be defrayed by an assessment of the 
District Associations. 

___ That the secondary object of the proposed State Association, 
the future development of which is left to the action of the 
State Association, is the preparation of a Standard Southern 

‘History and smaller School Histories, in which the part the 

Confederacy bore in the late war may be properly related to the 
world, and that the rising generation may be taught that their 

parents were not the vile traitors that the Common School His- 

“tories now prepared by our enemies assert.’ 

4th. That a Committee composed of the President, Secretary, 

d Five Members of the Association be appointed to corres- 

on on the subject of these Resolutions, to make all necessary 

angements for the assembling of the Convention, and to take 

Such measures as they may deem essential to the full accom- 

Plishment of the intentions of the Preamble and Resolutions. 





_ On motion of Major T. G. Barker, delegates were requested 
to register their names, and survivors of the Army or Navy of 





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the Confederate States, in good standing from Districts not 
regularly represented, and Presidents of Corps Associations 
present by invitation, were requested to enroll shomses as 
members of the Convention. ; ae 


The following delegates registered their names: 


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ABBEVILLE.—J. T. Robertson, G. M. Jordan. : 
Anperson.—Captain James A. Hoyt, A. J. Sitton, Dr. E. M. 
Brown, fl 
BaRNWELL.—Robert Aldrich. oo 
Beavrort.—Captain William Elliott. a 
Cuarteston.—Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr., Major T. c 


G. H. Moffett. Alternates—Colonel C. I. Walker, Colonel P. C. 
Gaillard, Dr. J. Ford Prioleau, Isaac Bee ‘T. Pinckne 
Tawiaiss: 

CueEsteR.—John A. Bradley. 


CHESTERFIELD.—Thos. F. Malloy. re 
Daruineton.—Major J. Jonathan Lucas, Captain EH. W 
Lloyd. ie 


EperrieLp.—Captain T. W. Carwille, Captain 0. N.. Butler 
Captain F. L. Smith. 

FarrrieLp.—General John Bratton, Cnseaes Pierre Bacot 
Macfie, Captain A. S. Gaillard. iM | 

GREENVILLE.—W. L. Mauldin, John Ferguson. a 

Kersuaw.—General J. B. eee Captain Wm. L. DePass 


Ww. Clyburn. ty 
LancastTer.—Captain H. Legare Farley. ‘ 
Marion.—S. A. Dunham, D, E Gilchrist. tal 


Maruzporo’.—Dr. W. J. David. ‘ iad 
Ricutanp.—Colonel F. W. McMaster, Colonel Wm. Wal 
Colonel Warren Adams. : 
Spartanpura.—C. EH. Fleming. a 
Witi1amssure.—J. Furman Dargan. 


-The following officers registered their names as Preside iS ¢ 
Corps Associations: wade 


Col. Z. Davis, South Carolina Rangers Charitable Associa 
Colonel A. Ruerr, Moultrie Association S. C. Regulars. 
Captain A. J. Mims, Charleston Riflemen Association. 
Major J. L. Buisr, Palmetto Guard Charitable Association. — 










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Major T. G. Baker read a letter* from General John S. Pres- 
ton, which, on his motion, was ordered to be entered upon 
the minutes. 

On motion of Colonel McCrady, it was 


Resolved. That a committee of five be appointed to draft a 


\ constitution and nominate permanent officers. 


‘The chair appointed as the committee Colonel McCrady, 
General Conner, General Bratton, Colonel Wallace and Colonel 
McMaster. 

The Convention then adjourned until four o’clock, P. M. 


AFTERNOON SESSION. 


The Convention re-assembled at the hour to which it had 
adjourned. 

Dr. F. L. Frost, of Georgetown, Warren Symmes, of Oconee, 
and Myer B. Moses, of Sumter, enrolled their names as delegates. 

General Conner, trom the committee appointed to draft a Con- 
Stitution, reported the following, which, on his motion, was 
considered as a whole and unanimously adopted : 


BASIS OF ORGANIZATION. ‘ 





_ Wauerzas, The events of the late war between the Confede- 
rate and United States of Americaare still fresh in the memory 
of its survivors, and many Confederate records now exist which 
will perish unless those most deeply interested in the vindica- 
tion of the cause and the memory of their comrades assume the 
duty of preserving them; 

AND WHEREAS, many of the survivors of the Confederate 
Army are disabled by wounds received or disease contracted in 
the service from earning a livelihood for themselves and their 
families, and many widows and orphans are left destitute by 
the death of their husbands and fathers during the late war, 
and as it is a sacred duty incumbent upon those of us to whom 


| lat God of Battles has spared sufficient health and strength to 


bor, to share their means, however small, with such of their 
More unfortunate comrades who still suffer and languish, and 





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to assist, as far as possible, the widows and orphans of then 
ceased fellow- soldiers; therefore, j 

Resolved, That we, the delegates from the District Survivoi rae 
Association, of the State of South Carolina, do hereby organize 
a State Association, for the purpose of collecting and presery 
the records relating to the late war, and the materials for 
history, and also for the purpose of assisting our comrades who 
are unable to labor by reason of wounds received or disease 
contracted in the service, and the widows and orphans of those — 
who fell in the discharge of their duty. ; 





CONSTITUTION. 





ARTICLE I.—NAME. 


Srction 1. This Association shall be known as the SuRvrvoR 
ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE oF SourH CAROLINA, and is organize 
for the purposes set forth in the foregoing preamble and resem L 
tion. 
ARTICLE Il—MEMBERSHIP. a 

Section 1. Those who served in the Confederate Army or 
Navy to the close of the war, or honorably resigned or were 
discharged therefrom; and any who, though not members of 
Army or Navy, have, nevertheless, performed service for t 
Confederate cause of distinguished gallantry and merit, may 
elected members of this and the District Association of t 
district in which they reside. The male issue of persons include 
in the above, and of persons who have died in the said servic 
who may become of age after the year 1869, may also be electe 
members. 

Section 2. A member of any District Association shall | 
entitled to a seat in the Association of any other Distrie 
which he may be present, but not to a vote in any other 
that of the District in which he resides. 

Section 3. A member of any District Association remoyin 
to another District shall, upon presentation of his certificate 
membership, be entitled to membership in the Association 
the District to which he removes, unless excluded therefrom b 
a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any regul 
meeting. 

Szcrion 4 Applications for membership shall be made 
regular meeting of the District Association in which the 
plicant resides, in accordance with the printed form, set 
forth a short record of the military or naval career of the a 
plicant, certified to, if possible, by officers of his immedia 


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command. The application shall be referred to the Committee 
on Applications, to be reported upon and balloted for at the next 
regular meeting of the said Association. The record shall be 
copied in a suitable book, to be kept by the Association of which 
the applicant is elected a member and then forwarded to the 
Libarian of this Association, to be filed among its archives. 


ARTICLE II.—OFFICERS. 


Srotion 1. The officers of the State Association shall be a 
‘President, four Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, 

to be elected by the delegates to the annual Convention. There 
shall be an Executive Board, consisting of seven members, to be 
appointed by the President, any three of whom shall constitute 
a quorum. 

Srecrion 2. The President shall preside at all meetings of the 
State Association, and shall discharge all such duties as are 
prescribed by the Constitution. 

Srorron 3. In the absence of the President, the senior Vice- 
President present shall discharge the duties incumbent on his 
position; and in case neither the President nor any of the Vice- 
Presidents be present, the Association shall proceed to the 
election of a Chairmann, who shall discharge the duties of the 
President for the time being. 

Section 4. The Secretary shall perform all the duties be- 
longing to that position. 

Seotion 5. The Treasurer shall collect all funds due the As- 
sociation, and hold the same subject to disposal as hereinafter 
directed. He shall give a bond to the trustees in such amount 
and with such sureties as may be required by them. His books 
and accounts shall be audited and examined by the trustees, 
who shall on every Anniversary lay the same before the As- 
‘sociation. The Treasurer shall be exempt from all dues. 

Section 6. The President and Vice-Presidents shall together 

 Gonstitute the Trustees of the Association which they shall re- 
present in its corporate capacity. It shall be their duty to in- 
vest any surplus funds of the Association. 

_Srorron 7. The Executive Board shall be charged with the 
collection, arrangement, and preservation of the records of the 
Association, and shall have the general superintendence and 
| control of the Bureau of Records. 

Srction 8. The Executive Board shall annually elect a Li- 
brarian, who shall be charged with the immediate custody of all 
books, papers, and records committed to his care by them, and 
of their arrangement and record, under the superintendence of 
the said Board, and shall receive such compensation as the 

Executive Board shall determine. 

Section 9. There shall be to each District Association a 

President and four Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a Treasurer. 


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Srecrion 10. There shall be to each District Associati 
Committee on Applications and a Committee on Records. 
Committee on Applications shall consist of five member 
shall examine into and report upon all applications for me 
ship, and, as far as practicable, verify the personal record 
mililary career of applicants. 

The Committee on Record shall consist of five members, 
shall collect and forward to the Librarian all rolls, compa 
regimental, reports, orders, and other matters of record 
their District. 

Section 11. The District Association shall have such othe 
officers and standing committees as they shall determine, 


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ARTICLE IV.—MEETINGS. 


Szctron 1. There shall be an annual meeting of this Associa 
tion, which shall be held at Columbia, on the second Thursday 
of November, to which each District Association shall be en 
titled to send five delegates. “a 

Sxcrton 2. Special meetings may be called by the President 
at the written request of five (5) District Associations, = 


ARTICLE V. _FUNDS 


The Funds of this Association shall be raised by assess mn 
upon the District Associations. 


ARTICLE VI. CHARITY. 


The District Associations shall raise such funds for the pw 
poses of charity, and dispose of them in such manner as 
shall provide. 


ARTICLE VII.—AMENDMWENTS. 


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Amendments of this Constitution may be made at any An 
nual Meeting, by a vote of two-thirds of the Delegates present 


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General Conner, from the same Committee, reported the 
lowing nominations, for permanent officers, for the ensuin; 
year: 


For President—Lieut. Gen. WADE HAMPYON. iy a 
For First Vice-President—Lieut. Gen. R. H. ANDERSON. 

For Second Vice-President—Maj. Gen. J. B. KERSHAW. — 
For Third Vice-President—Brig. Gen. SAM’L Mc GOWAN. 
For Fourth Vice-President—Major T.G. BARKER. 
For Secretary—Colonel A. C. HASKELUM. — 
For Treasurer—Captain WM. K. BACHMAN. 


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Which, on his motion, was unanimously adopted, and the 
persons named declared elected. 

General Kershaw, Vice-President presiding, then appointed 
the following persons on the Executive Board, for the ensuing 
year: Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr., General Ellison Capers, 
General James Conner, Colonel J. McCutchen, Colonel Wm. 
Wallace, Colonel J. H. Rion, Colonel C. I. Walker. 

On motion of General Conner it was: 


Resolved, That one thousand copies of the Constitution be 
printed. 


General Conner stated that he was authorized to say that 
the Charleston District Association would assume the charge 
of printing and distributing the Constitution. 

On motion of Colonel McMaster it was: 


Resolved, That the Executive Board be instructed to assesss 
the District Association fifty dollars ($50) each for the current 
expenses of the year. 


General Conner called the attention of the Association to the 

great importance of collating carefully the historical material 
and records of each District, and stated that a Librarian would 
be required properly to arrange the data collected. 
' Major Barker stated that he had been requested by some 
ladies, who were engaged in a work of charity, to appeal to the 
Convention for aid for their institution. The Home for the 
| Widows and Children of the Confederate Soldiers was the 
charity, and it was one that appealed to the warmest impulses 
of every soldier’s heart. 

General Bratton moved that a list for subscriptions by mem- 
bers of the Convention, in aid of the institution, be opened. 

Colonel McCrady moved to lay the motion on the table. 
| Carried. 

General Conner then offered the following resolution : 


Resolved, That this Covention do cordially recommend the 
* Widow’s Home” to the attention of the District Associations 
in the State, and the members here pledge themselves to use 
their endeavors to obtain contributions thereto. 


Which was unanimously adopted. 


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Resolved, That the thanks of the Conven 
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No further business being brought to ‘the 
Convention, on motion it stood adjourned. | 


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APPENDIX. 


LETTER OF GENERAL JOHN 8. PRESTON. 


CotumsBiA, November 18, 1869. 

My Dear Sir: It is a painful regret to me that I cannot be 
present at the preliminary meeting of the State Survivors’ Asso- 
ciation. Up to this hour I had set my heart on being there to 
join in its organization, and aid in giving the first impetus to 
its honorahle and holy work, and to meet again many who I 
had known, honored and loved in the field. I am Very, very 
sorry that it isso that I cannot be there. Will not you have 
the kindness to make known to our comrades my profound and 
entire sympathy? We are all survivors of our brothers and 
sons who died gloriously for their country and for liberty, and 
we have survived that liberty and that country for which they 
died. 

We now associate ourselves to keep alive in our hearts, by 
solemn rites and good deeds, the memory of the virtues and the 
great deeds of those who perished, that thereby our spirit may 
be so inflamed as never to forget the cause for which they died, 
although that cause did seem to die with them. It does seem 
to me that this is a duty near to and very close upon our duties 
to that God in whose presence the justified spirits of our com- 
rades are living forever—past all survivorship. It is quite 
equal to our duties to their and our posterity, and to our own 
present. 

Let the initiatory performance of this sacred duty be made 
with the profoundest impression of all its solemn relations. In 
dictating the terms of our association strive to do justice to all 
the heroic dead and to all the living whom God has blessed 
(although condemned to survive their liberty) by having made 
them soldiers of the army of the Southern Confederacy. Many 
of our fathers have been soldiers of liberty for centuries; but 
we may say with proud humility that we have given a new 
blazon to their shields, by adding to them the quarterings of 
soldiers of the Southern Confederacy. It is as noble a title of 
honor as was ever won by man. Let us, then, build for it not 
only monuments of marble and brass, but those ever-living me- 
morials which will dwell in the human heart as long as their 
lives one drop of Confederate blood. 

_ This association, then, is meant to perpetuate our own honor 
and that of our brothers who won it at the price of death. 

We assume thus the gravest obligations, and I do trust that 

_ the organization will be as pure and free from living passion as 


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if our hands were joined over the graves of our comrades, 2 
that with earnest and patient deliberation it will be so 
structed as to bind us in a holy brotherhood, and as our C 
ton comrades have already expressed it, bring comfort | 
blessings to may of the “survivors of the Confederate army 
navy who are disabled by wounds received and disease « 
tracted in the service from earning a livelihood for them 
and their families, and many widows and orphans left d 
by the death of their husbands and fathers in the cause 
country.” } 

Pray communicate to the meeting, in such wise as you m 
choose, this expression of my earnest and active sympathy, 
Faithfully yours, — aod 
- JOHN S. PRESTOD 

To Major BarKER. , tx 





SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 
SURVIVORS? ASSOCIATION 


OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 


CaroLIna, HALL, 
CotumBiaA. Thursday, November 10, 1870. 


_ The meeting was called to order at 10 o’clock, A. M., General 
J. D. Kennedy, in the absence of the President and Vice-Presi- 
dents, in the chair. 

There appearing to be some misunderstanding in regard to 
the hours of meeting, the Association adjourned to meet at 5 
o’clock, P. M. 


AFTERNOON SESSION. 


The Association-met at 5 o’clock, P. M., according to adjourn- 
ment. General J. B. Kershaw, Senior Vice-President present, 
in the chair. 

The following officers and delegates were present: 

General J. B. KnrsHaw, Vice-President. 
Colonel A. C. HasKkett, Secretary. 
Captain Wituram K. Bacuman, Treasurer. 

Executive Board.—Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr., General 
Ellison Capers, Colonel J. McCutchen, Colonel W. H. Wallace, 
Colonel J. H. Rion, Colonel C. Irvine Walker. 

Anprrson.—T. M. Creighton. 

ABBEVILLE.—Colonel D. W. Aiken. W. C. Wardlaw, D. M. 
Jordan. 

BarnweEtu.—General Johnson’ Hagood, Captain Robert Ald- 
tich, Wm. H. Duncan. 

Bravurort.—Captain John G. Barnwell. 

CiarENDON.—W. G. Shaw. 

CottEeton.—Colonel Carlos Traey. 

CHARLESTON.—Captain James Armstrong; Jr., Colonel S. B. 
Pickens, Captain J. S. Fairley, Geo. D. Bryan, Captain F. W. 


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Dawson. Alternates—Captain C. R. Holmes, A. T. Smythe, 
W. G. Whilden, M. L. Wilkins, Captain C. E. Chichester. 

Ouesrea.—Colonel W. A. Walker, David Hemphill, E. C. 
McClure, Hemphill McDaniel, James Johnston. . 

CHESTERFIELD.— 

Farrrietp.—S. B. Clowney, Captain W. M. Dwight, T. W. 
Woodward, J. G. Bryce, DuBose Eggleston. 

Grorcetown.—B. H. Wilson, R. Dozier, A. C. Trenholm, C. 
P. Alston. j 

GREENVILLE—General EH. Capers, Wm. Beattie, Wm. H. 
Perry, Captain W. HE. Earle, Captain Leonard Williams. 

Horry.— 

Kersuaw.—T. H. Clarke, General J. D. Kennedy, General 
Jas. Chesnut, Captain W. Clyburn, Colonel W. M. Shannon, 
Captain F. M. Davis. ; 

EpGEFIELD.—General M. W. Gary, Colonel Henry W. Addison, 
Major W. T. Gary, Captain J. W. Carwile, Captain C. A. Cheag 
tam, General M. L. Bonham. 

Lancaster.—Captain T. EH. Foster, Captain J. B. Irwin, R. M. 
Sims. ‘ 

Lexineton.—Colonel Palmer, Dr. sate: Major Leaphart, 
Colonel Wm. Fort. i 

Lavrens.—H. L. Farley, R. B. Ploininy C. A. Simpson, G. 
W. Shiel, Samuel Vance. 

Marion.— 

MARLBORO’.— 

Newserry.—Captain Y. J. Pope, W. J. Fair, Daniel mk 
John A. Henderson, Thos. H. Moorman. 

PIcKENS.— 

OcoNEE.— 

OrANGEBURG.—Colonel A. D. Goodwin, Colonel A. D. Fred- 
erich, D. Zimmerman, S. Dibble, F. M. Wannamaker, W. A. 
Basteriin. 

Ricuianp.—Captain J. W. Waties, Colonel F. W. MeMaster 

SparTanpurG.—B, F. Kilgore, J ola H. Evins. 

Sumrer.—J. 8. Richardson, J.G. Ramsay, Wm. Cooper, Jo 
Montgomery. 

Union.—General W. H. Wallace, Captain William Munro, 
Joseph Gist, Colonel J. G. McKissick, Captain F..M. Farr. 

WILLIAMsBURG.—Colonel James McCutchen. ® 

Yorx.—Major James F. Hart, S. C. Sadler. 


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Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr., of Charleston, submitted the 
Report of the Executive Board* recommending the adoption 
of the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : 


1. Resolved, That the estimates of expenses submitted by the 
executive board be referred to a special committee of three, to 
devise a plan for raising the amount so reported as necessary 
to meet the expenses already incurred, and for the expense 
of the next year, and report the same to this meeting. 

2. Resolved, That the Treasurer be authorized to pay to the 
executive board the sum of $125 for the ladies who have rear- 
ranged and engrossed the Roll of the Dead, and also to pay 
the bill of Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogswell, reported due by 
the board, amounting to $83 79. 

3. Resolved, That the executive board be authorized to pub- 
lish by subscription, upon the plan reported by them, the Roll 
of the Dead, prepared by Professor Rivers, as now rearranged, 
in two editions, the first edition for corrections and additions ; 
and the second, so corrected and added to, in permanent form. 

4, Resolved, That the executive board be authorized to pur- 
chase, as soon as the treasurer shall be in sufficient funds, after 
having paid the amounts already ordered, a complete file of the 

‘Official reports issued by the War Department of the Confeder- 
ate States, and such other histories as they may deem it impor- 
tant at once to obtain, and to draw on the Treasurer, when so 
in funds, therefor; to an amount not exceeding $125. 

| 5. Resolved, That the executive board be authorized to obtain 
|a place of deposit for the records and books of the association, 
| which shall be accessible to all, and to expend upon the same 
/a Sum not more than $25, for shelves, etc. 

| 6. Resolved, That this Association requests all persons having 
original reports of, or letters describing battles, marches, recon- 
noisances, sieges, or other papers relating to the operations of 
|the war, to permit the executive board to have copies of the 
same taken for preservation. 

7. Resolved, That this Association appeals to the surviving 
[officers and members of every company that went into the Con- 
federate service from the State, and to the officers of the gen- 
feral staff, to prepare rolls of their comrades from memory, if 
‘there exists no records from which to make them out, and for- 
ward the same to the chairman of the executive board. 

8. Resolved, That the thanks of every Confederate soldier of 
he State of South Carolina, and of the people generally, are 
due to Professor Rivers for the valuable material he has col- 
lected for the history of our State troops, and especially for 
ithe Roll of the Dead, preserved through his generous and patri- 



















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otic labors, iad this association of the survivors of bia: 
render to him their grateful acknowledgments. 


Captain Wm. K. Bachman, Treasurer, submitted a report of 
the finances, and called the attention of the Association to 
assessment upon each District Association made at its 
meeting. ¥ 

General M. L. Bonham, of Edgefield, took the Chair, at the 
request of General Kershaw, who submitted the follow 
which was unanimously adopted, by the members of the Asso: 
ciation rising in silence : 


In Memoriam. 


It is meet that we recall on this occasion the memory of ou 
revered chieftain, General Robert EH. Lee, and to lay upo 
tomb our poor tribute to his greatness and his worth, am 
votive offerings of our countrymen at the shrine of the p 
and hero. . When we approach the truly, grand and breat 
atmosphere of that which is sublime, either in the mo 
physical world, the heart of man is stilled—the spirit is 
and humbled by the presence of the Infinite, manifested 
works of His hands, or in the diviner emanations of His’ 
supernal nature and image, sometimes vouchsafed to the d 
zens of earth. Thus it is when we stand by the newly-m 
grave and contemplate the person, the character and the 

of Robert HE. Lee, we feel the inadequacy of our lim 
powers either rightly to conceive the virtues of the dead, o 
embody in language such conceptions as our capacities ie 
us to enjoy. We would withdraw into the deeper reces 
our own nature, the silent regions of unutterable emoti 
those borders of the spirit land where we catch the echoe 
the infinite world beyond, there to commune in the stillnes 
our own hearts. Yet it is fitting that we, his friends and ¢ 
rades in the past, who shared his triumphs and his reverses, 
joys and his sorrows, his hopes and his despair, should wrea 
around his honored name and memory our garlands of love 
praise, fresh and unfading flowers from the garden of grat 
hearts, embalming for the generations to come the virtues ar 
the greatness of the illustrious citizen, hero and patriot. 

His was a nature so perfect, that, like the circle, it de 
analysis gr comparison. 1t presented a fullness, a completen 
a grandeur of development that offered nothing to censure, 
left nothing to desire. Neither the experience of the liv 
nor the portraitures of history offered its prototype or para 
Our great countryman, Washington, furnishes in some of his 
characteristics, as also in the analogies of his career, a resem 


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blance as that between star and star, but they differed as “one 
star differeth from another star in glory.” His form, his face, 
his voice, his bearing, God-like in beauty, power and grace, dis- 
tinguished him from all other men. He certainly was made 
but “a little lower than the angels,” and now he has crossed 
the river to be with them, whither the flower of his noble army 
had gone before, whither we, too, shall’ follow, if faithful sen- 
tinels, as one by one we are relieved from duty here and ordered 
to the front to join that victor band. There are men, cast in so 
high a mould, so peculiarly and eminently favored by God, as 
_ to be rather fitted for that better life than this. They are the 
great exemplars; the beacon lights, that guide the race onward 
and upward. Think of that illustrous throng—the Confederate 
dead—in the world of light and liberty! How many such men 
—‘“heroes in history ”—1find their place most fitting among the 
highest and the brighest? Yet even among these, how towers 
the lofty spirit of Robert E. Lee! When we consider the moral 
grandeur of the man, even his magnificent achievements in the 
field of arms cease to astonish us, and we lose ourselves in the 
contemplation of his nobility of soul. What was his life for 
the last five years but a constant martyrdom of the spirit—a 
daily dying for us? To teach us to labor,-to suffer, to endure, 
to wait patiently for our redemption, to abide faithfully by the 
inevitable, to bow to the will of God. Who can estimate what 
he felt, what he endured, in those five years of agony, for his 
tortured countrymen? What wonder his great heart broke at 
‘last? His duty done, thank God, henceforth he wears the 
victor’s crown—illustrious inhabitant of one of the “ many 
mansions” of his “ Father’s House.” Thither, in our humble 
ag may we strive to follow, that “ where he is, we may 
_be also.” 
Resolved, That the above be inscribed upon the Minutes of 
_the Association, and a copy be forwarded to his bereaved 
family, as an assurance of our profound and Kila sympathy 
with their affliction. 


On motion, the Association adjourned as a mark of reverence 
to the memory of General Lee. 

The Association attended in the Baptist Church, at 7.30 
-P. M., to hear the annual oration, which was delivered by 
General John S. Preston. 


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SECOND DAY’S SESSION. — Te yi 


The Association met on Friday, the 11th, at 9 A. ft The : 
Minutes were read and approved. ar, 
On motion of Captain W. M. Dwight, the Association f ra 


PRESIDENT: 
General WADE Hampton, of Richland. 


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VICE-PRESIDENTS: 


General RicHarp H. AnpeErson, of Sumter. 
General JosepH B. KersHaw, of Kershaw. 
General SamuEL McGowan, of Abbeville. 

Major Turopore G. Barxer, of Charleston. 


i SECRETARY: 
Colonel A. C. Hasxett, of Richland. 


TREASURER : 
Captain Witt1AM K. Bacumay, of Richland. 


On motion of Capt. W. M. Dwight, of Fairfield, by av 
two-thirds of the delegates present, it was 


Resolved, That Article 3 of the Constitution be so amended 
as to provide for six instead of four Vice-Presidents. 


On motion of Capt. W. M. Dwight, the. Association then or 
ceeded with the election of the additional Vice-Pres 
whereupon the following persons were elected by acclan 

General M. C. Butler, of Edgefield. 4 

General Arthur M. Manigault, of Georgetown. as 

The Chair then announced the following persons re-appe i 
on the Executive Board for the ensuing year: 


EXECUTIVE BOARD. 


Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr., of Charleston. 
General Ellison Capers, of Greenville. 
General James Conner, of Charleston. 
Colonel J. W. McCutchen, of Williamsburg. 
Colonel W. H. Wallace, of Richland. 

Colonel J. H. Rion, of Fairfield. 

Colonel C. Irvine Walker, of Charleston. 





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On motion of General James Chesnut, of Kershaw, it was 


Resolved, That the Executive Board be instructed to select 
and invite some suitable person to deliver an oration before the 
Association at its next annual meeting. 


On motion of Col. Wm. M. Shannon, of Kershaw, it was 
unanimously 


Resolved, 1. That the members of the Survivors’ Association 
of South Carolina have heard, with the profoundest admiration 
and intensest sensibilities, and hearts feelingly vibrating between 
buoyant hope and saddest memories, the eloquent and grand 
oration of our distinguished brother, General John S. Preston. 

2. That we again recognize the rich heritage of burning elo- 
quence and thinking patriotism descended from the great Henry, 
and which before, in a brighter day, has been so generously and 
gratefully shared with us. 

_ 3. That General Preston be requested to furnish the Execu- 
tive Board with a copy of his address for publication. 


On motion of Capt. John S. Fairley, of Charleston, it was 


Resolved, That it be referred to the Executive Board to con- 
sider and report at the next annual meeting, on a design for a 
certificate of membership. 


- On motion of Major J. F. Hart, of York, it was 


Resolved, That the attention of the several District Associa- 
tions be called to the Widows’ and Orphans’ Home in Charles- 
ton, a noble institution, largely sustained by the benevolence of 
the people of that city, and that they be requested to place its 
| Dame on their list of charities, and bestow upon it that portion 
of their aid it so justly claims at their hands. 


Captain F. W. Dawson, of Charleston, moved the following 
amendment to the Constitution : 


Resolved, That Section I, Article IV, of the Constitution be 
amended so as to read: 

Section 1. There shall be an Annual Meeting of the Associa- 
| tion, which shall be held at such time and at such place as 
shall be fixed upon at the preceding Annual Meeting, to which 
each District Association shall be entitled to send five Delegates. 


Which, after discussion, was withdrawn. 
On motion of Col. Wm. M. Shannon, of Kershaw, it was 


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report to this Association at its next me 
medal to be worn by the members of the 


The Association then adjourned. 


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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE SUR- 
VIVORS’ ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF SOUTH 
CAROLINA. 


The Executive Board respectfully report: The duty of pre- 
serving the history of the events of the late war between the 
Confederate and United States, which still are fresh in the 
memory of its survivors, and of collecting the many Confede- 
rate records which yet exist, but which will be forgotten and 
destroyed unless at once collected, and put in permanent form, 

_is recognized, and assumed in the Basis of Organization of this 
Association. 

To perform this duty, it is provided in the Constitution that 

‘there shall be an Executive Board, consisting of seven members, 

appointed by the President, which: shall be charged with the 
collection, arrangement and preservation of the records of the 
Asssociation, and shall have the general superintendence and 
control of the Bureau of Records. It is also provided that the 
Executive Board shall annually elect a Librarian, who shall be 
charged with the immediate custody of all books, papers and 
records, committed to his care by them, and of their arrange- 
ment and record under the superintendence of the Board, and 
who shall receive such compensation as the Board shall deter- 
mine. 

Under these provisions of the Constitution the undersigned 

_wWere appointed upon the Executive Board and entered upon 
their duties. There appear to the Board to be two classes of 
records which it is desirable to preserve. The first relates to 
the general history of the war. The second to the number, 
organization and personal history of the troops furnished by 
_the State to the Confederate army. 

The Board believes that a large amount of loose but most 
valuable material for the first exists, such as reports, orders, 
letters, &c., scattered about in private portfolios, which will be 
lost not only to the State but to the individual possessors, 
unless systematically preserved, and they are anxious to obtain 

| these papers, at least for the purpose of making copies. 
_ They would recommend that the Board be authorized to 
purchase, if they cannot otherwise procure, a complete file of 
| the official reports issued from the war office of the Confederate 
States, and such other histories of the war as they may con- 
sider worthy of preservation for the use of the Association, and 
‘as its means may permit. 
__ They regard, however, the second class of records as by far 
the most pertinent to the designs of this Association, and they 


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believe it to be that which first demands our efforts to prese 
The large number of able and prominent officers interested 
the history of the general operations of our armies, is s0 
guarantee that an effort will be made to obtain a fair state t 
of what was done by the Confederate troops in the field. 
there is another part of the history of the times which it 
hooves us carefully to preserve, and in which as none are so 
mediately and personally interested is in more danger of be 
lost. 
The war having ended disastrously to our cause, the whole 
Southern people turn upon us the most scrutinizing enquiry as 
to the part our State took in the warshe inaugurated. And thi 
is but just. As we gloried in having rushed foremost into the 
fray, and as our action compelled the people of our sister South- 
ern States either to stand by and see us, and with us their o 
cause subjugated, or to join in the struggle, 80 now, in their 
our defeat, it becomes us to show that we were not lagga 
in the strife to which we called them. 7 
And this we can do. We believe that we can show that ot 
of a voting population of less than 68,000, we gave 44, 00 
volunteers during the first eighteen months of the war, ané 
during the whole war, at least one soldier for every vote 
for secession. We believe that we can show that our Sts 
gave more than 12,000 lives for the Southern cause. And y 
believe that we can show that of the remnant of the zlorial 
Army of Northern Virginia which stood by its Chieftain to the 
last, one-fifth of the whole were South Carolinians, and that 
though she was one of the smallest of the nine States whose 
troops composed his army. 
But all this must be shown, not merely asserted. And ho 
can we show it? The records of both State and Confederate 
States have been destroyed, and facts and names are fast pass- 
ing from our memory. Unless we can gather at once all the 
remaining rolls and supply the missing from such memoranda 
as may yet exist, we shall soon be left to bare assertion. 
There is another and as grave a reason why our first efforts 
should be directed to the personal history of our troops. 
In an article in a recent English review, on the Governmen t 
scheme of army reform submitted to Parliament, it is said “ 
enfants perdu of the world are your best soldiers, the men who 
have lost all taste for civil life, who are no loss to civil soci 
who have weighed life in the balance and found it wanti 1g, 
men of wrecked prospects and ruined hopes—men who seek 1 
the wild excitement of strife an escape from the mem 
of bright days gone by—from the thoughts of fortunes, 
fair, now blasted—from the broken dream of faith in woman’s 
love. Such men filled the ranks of the Zonave battalions of — . 
France during the Crimean war; such men were to be found 


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in numbers in the European regiments of the old Company’s 
service in India—men very hard to hold in peace, but harder 
still to fight in war.” 

And such, doubtless, were the men who have composed most 
armies of the world. But such were not the men who marched 
with Jackson, who fought at Chickamauga, who stormed the 
heights of Gettysburg, who charged with Hampton, or who 
stood amidst Sumter’s crumbling walls. 

To describe the character of those who composed the armies 
of the Confederate States is but to describe the character of our 
people. The rich and poor, the educated and ignorant, the 
farmer and merchant, the student and laborer, stood side by 
side in our ranks. 

The general historian will tell of the operations in the field, 
‘and will give, as far as the imperfect records will enable him, an 
estimate of the numbers engaged. But who will tell of the 
host of privates, our friends, our brothers, who, with bare and 
bleeding feet, struggled over rocky and frozen roads to fall un- 
known in the battle? 

To those of us who survive, though it has fallen to our lot to 
bear the humiliation of defeat, from which they have been 
spared, there yet remains the opportunity of struggling for our 
native land, and the hope some day of realizing the objects 
for which we fought, though not in the form we desired. But 
for those who fell no such hope remains. They gave their lives 
for our cause, it becomes us to preserve their memories. 

The Executive Board were authorized to appoint a Librarian 
to take charge of the books, papers and records of the Associa- 
tion. It was known to the Board that Professor W. J. Rivers 
had been engaged during and since the war in collecting the 
names of the dead and gathering information in regard to the 
organization and number of our troops. They sought, there- 
fore, to obtain his valuable assistance in this capacity. But 
though generously putting all the material he had collected at 
the disposal of the Association, circumstances prevented his 

) assuming the charge of our records. He consented, however, 
for the present, to aid the Board in their work. 

In a preface to the papers tendered to the Association, Pro- 
fessor Rivers says: “The plan devised for the arrangement of 
the material collected consists of two parts—First, an intro- 
duction containing (1) a chronological account of the raising of 
troops for State and Confederate service ; (2) a brief account of 

_ the career of each organization during the war, with an appended 
grouping together of the dead of each regiment or battalion; 
(8) statistical tables showing the number killed in battle, the 
number of those who died of wounds, of disease, or from acci- 
dent; the number who died between the ages of 15 and 20, 20 
and 25, and so on; the number from each district, and a list of 


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the engagements in which our State ,troops participated. 
second consists of the roll, or an alphabetical list of all wh 
perished, with the district from which each soldier came, 
rank, company, regiment, arm of service, date of death, 
and place of death, and age.” 

He now offers to the Association the work thus far comple ted 
by him, viz: The introduction to his collection, containin 
he proposed, a chronological account of the raising of troo 
State and Confederate s service, in itself a mest valuable 
and one of great historical importance; and also sketches 
pared by him (from information furnished by the officers 
_ the careers of the following regiments, to wit: 1st South 
lina Volunteers, (Hagood’s,) 2d South .Caroliua Volun 
7th South Carolina Volunteers, 10th South Carolina Volunt 
13th South Carolina Volunteers, 18th South Carolina Volun 
20th South Carolina Volunteers, 22d South Carolina Volun 
24th South Carolina Volunteers, Holeombe’s Legion, 2d 
Carolina Rifles, 5th and 7th South Carolina Cavalry, and 
South Carolina Battalion, together with a list of the battles i 
which the troops from this State were engaged, arranged i 
chronological order, amounting in all to the number of or 
hundred and eight, not including the general operations of 
siege of Petersburg, lasting ten months, and that of Charlest 
lasting three years. 

It appears from the Adjutant-General’s Report in App 
to Journal of 4th Session of the Convention, which is qi 
by Professor Rivers, that upon the 30th August, 1862, the 
of South Carolina had in the field 41,873 volunteers and 
conscripts, and that it was estimated that the number o 
contributed by the State up to that time to the Confe 
service exceeded 45,000, besides which she then had in 
8,000 reserves, and that ‘during the last year of the war we h. 
in the field 32 regiments and 3 battalions of infantry, | 8re gl 
ments of cavalry, ‘and 2 regiments 2 battalions, and 22 batteri 
of artillery, with 4 regiments of reserves, besides the corps ; 
State Cadets. : 

This enumeration does not include the officers and men of th 
general staff, to wit: the Engineer, Ordinance, Adjutant, Qua 
termaster, Commissary, Signal and Medical Corps, of which 1 
have not as yet been able to obtain any estimate. 

But the most valuable material offered to the Association D 
Prof. Rivers, in the opinion of the Board, are the names of t 
dead collected by him. This roll he had made up from ¢ 
sources within his reach, newspaper reports, reports of frie! 
and some official reports. Thus collected they had bee 
down only in alphabetical order, that is, the names were 0 
collected together by the initial letters, and so in lookin 
any given name, in many cases hundreds had to be read. Gath 


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ered, moreover, from various sources and put down from time to 
time, it was impossible but that it should happen that some names 
would be twice or even thrice entered, and this was more likely 
to happen in the hurry of the official reports, the difficulty of 
deciphering illegible writing, and through the mistakes of the 
press, combined with the arbitrary method of spelling names. 
The same name reported from different sources was often so 
varied as to make a doubt as to its identity. 
The Board, therefore, undertook to have this collection of 
names re-arranged Jexicographically and fairly written out, and 
engaged a lady, the widow of a Confederate officer, to perform 
the task. This work has been done and supervised, with the 
assistance of Professor Rivers, and we herewith present to the 
Association a Roll of ten thousand South Carolinians who gave 
their lives to the Southern cause, with an appendix of two 
thousand more collected from sources not as authentic. The lady 
who undertook this work agreed to do it for the sum of one 
hundred dollars, and that amount has been advanced to her by 
members of this Board. But it is not considered a sufficient 
remuneration for the labor it has cost. She has been obliged to 
procure assistance, and the task has occupied the whole sum- 
mer. The Board think that an inspection of the work will 
show that the Association is still indebted to the ladies who 
have performed it, and recommend that the Treasurer be au- 
thorized and instructed to pay to them the further sum of 
twenty-five dollars as soon as in funds. 
_ The Board are well aware that some names are still wanting; 
they themselves could supply a few omissions, but they have 

letermined to recommend that it be published as it is, in two 
editions, the first with a preface, inviting corrections and addi- 
tions, to be submitted to the Board, by the friends of those who 
fell; the second with the additions and corrections thus made 
ina better and more permanent form. 

The Board have obtained estimates of the cost of publishing 
this Roll, together with Professor Rivers’ history of the raising 
of troops in this State, in the two editions, and report that Messrs. 
Walker, Evans & Cogswell, of Charleston, offer to publish 1,000 
copies of each edition, for $2 50 a copy, to be paid on delivery. 

, then, we can obtain 1,000 subscribers at $5 for the two edi- 
tions, this great memorial of our dead and valuable historical 
work for our State will be secured. 

The Board herewith present printed forms for subscription 
lists, and feel confident that if the plan is adopted the number 
of subscribers will soon be found. 

_While thus securing the remembrance of those who fell, the 
Board have felt that all who offered their lives were equally 

mtitled to have their names recorded upon the glorious roll of 
those who fought for our cause. : ‘ 









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To this end the President of the Association, in conferenc 
with the Board, issued a circular appealing earnestly. all 
who were in the service to codperate with the Association i 
their efforts to take up the work commenced by Prot 
Rivers, during the war, and to go on with it, to obtain and 
perfect rolls of companies, the records of regiments, and th 
history of brigades. (A copy of this Circular is annexed t 
this Report, marked A.) _ a 

In furtherance of this object they prepared a printed fous . 
Rolls, (a copy of which is also annexed and marked B..,) toh 
issued to the officers last in command of companies or to 01 th 
suitable persons. These circulars and blanks they proposed t 
issue through the officers last in command of regiments. 4 
obtain the names and address of such officers, enquirie 
addressed to each officer last in command of the brigad 
“troops, of this State. The names and addresses of officers | 
in command of the regiments and batteries, not brigaded 
South Carolina troops, they ascertained as best they could 
believe they have been successful in most instances ; in so 
they still need information. tv 

In answer to their inquiries, they have received replies ff 
Generals Hagood, McGowan, Manigault, Bratton, Conn ne 
Capers and Gary, Major Barker furnished the information 
the brigade of cavalry last commanded by General Logan, wh 
has removed from the State. From the officer who commande 
the brigade of regulars the board have received no re 
their communication. Upon the recommendation of the bri 
commanders they sent circnlars (see copy appended ma 
C) to the officers named in the list, hereto annexed mark 
and with each circular a package containing printed for 
tolls, and envelopes with printed address of the Chairma 
the Board in which to return the rolls when completed. 

The Board could not obtain the addresses of the officers lai 
in command of the regiments, battalions and batteries na 
in the annexed lists marked H, with sufficient accuracy to - 
circulars and forms of rolls, though many of their names 
well known. They have received returns, with the rol 
their companies, from the officers named in the list marke 
_ Asa matter of historical interest, they append to this re 
a list marked G, of the general officers of this State, and o 
regiments, battalions and batteries, as they were ultima 
organized, with the names of the commanders, as far as kn 
to the Board, together with the brigade organization, as 
were at the end of the war. 

They invite corrections and additions to these lists, if a 
mistakes or omissions are detected in them. The Board hoy 
by the next meeting, to be able to report a roll of the field a 
staff officers of the State. They regret that they have 1 

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information to report in regard to the naval forces of the 
State, but hope, in another year, to have something in regard 
to that branch of the service to submit. 

The Board did not feel themselves authorized to employ a 
Librarian until some definite arrangement had been made in 
regard to the finances of the Association. But they are anxious 
to have this office filled at once. The correspondence in regard 
to the rolls now being prepared is large, the custody of the 
papers a matter of responsibility, and their arrangement a work 
requiring more time and attention than can be given, but by a 
person regularly employed to attend to it. They think that 
for the small salary of $100, they could obtain the services of a 
competent person to perform these duties. It is of great con- 
sequence, too, that the records should be kept in a secure place 
accessible to all. They think they can effect an arrangement 
by which such a place of deposit will be found, and this only 
at the cost of fixing a few shelves and boxes for these books 
and records. 

They submit an estimate (see Appendix H,) of the expenses 
already incurred by the Board and of the expenses for the next 

rear. ’ 

e The Board cannot close this report without calling the atten- 
tion of the Association still more particularly to the patriotic 
and laborious efforts of Professor Rivers to collect and preserve 
the material collected by him, as well as to the generous man- 
ner in which he has placed the results of his labor at the dis- 
posal of this Association. 

_ Professor Rivers, it is true, was engaged by the Legislature 
of the State in 1864 to undertake this work, but it should be 
known that he never received one cent for his services during 
the time he was acting under its authority. His work had 
indeed but been commenced when the war ended, and his offi- 
cial connection with the matter ceased. The great mass of the 
material has been collected since the end of the war by his dis- 
interested efforts. The people of the State generally, but par- 
ticularly those of whose services he has endeavored to preserve 
the record, owe to him a debt of gratitude. The friends of 
those whose names, through his exertion, are found upon the 
glorious roll of South Carolina’s martyred dead, should appre- 
bad and gratefully remember the services he has rendered 

em. 

In conclusion, the Board would recommend the adoption of 
the following resolutions : 

Resolved, 1. That the estimate of expenses submitted by the 
Executive Board be referred to a Special Committee of Three, 
to devise a plan for raising the amount so reported as necessary 
to meet the expenses already incurred, and for the expenses of 
the next year, and report the same to this meeting. 














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2. That the Treasurer be authorized to pay to the Exec 
Board the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, 
for the ladies who have re-arranged and engrossed the | 
-the Dead, and also to pay the bill of Messrs. Walker, EB 
Cogswell, reported due by the Board, amounting to 
three dollars and seventy-nine cents. 

3. That the Executive Board be authorized to publ 
subscription, upon the plan reported by them, the Roll o 
Dead, prepared by Professor Rivers, as now re-arranged) s nt 
editions, the first edition for corrections and a ditions, and t 
second so corrected and added to, in permanent form. y 

4. That the Executive Board be authorized to purchas 
soon as the Treasurer shall be in sufficient funds, after 
paid the amounts already ordered, a complete file of the 
reports issued by the War Department of the Confe 
States, and such other histories as they may deem it .imp 
at once to obtain, and to draw on the Treasurer, when 
funds, therefor, to an amount not exceeding one hundr la 
twenty- five dollars. ; 

5. That the Executive Board be authorized to obtain a 1) 
of deposit for the Records and Books of the Association, wh 
is accessible to all, and to expend upon the same a sum oft 
more than twenty- ‘five dollars ($25) for shelves, ete. 

6. That this Association requests all persons having o 
reports of, or letters describing battles, marches, reconnoisat 
sieges, or other . papers relating to the operation of the war 
permit the Executive Board to have copies of the same ta 
tor preservation. 

7. That this Association appeals to the surviving officer: Sa 
members of every company that went into the Confede 
vice from this State, and to the officers of the General 
prepare rolls of their comrades from memory, if there e: st 
records from which:to make them out, and forward the 82 
to the Chairman of the Executive Board. 

8. That the thanks of every Confederate soldier of the 
of South Carolina, and of the people generally, are due t 
fessor Rivers for the valuable material he has collected 
history of our State troops, and especially for Roll of the 
preserved through his generous and patriotic labors; a 
Association of the Survivors of the War tender to lial th 
grateful acknowledgment. call 

Respectfully submitted, ; 

EDWARD McCRADY, J f- 
JAMES CONNER. 
JAMES McCUTCHEN. 
' ELLISON CAPERS. _ 
7 C. IRVINE WALKER. — 
WM. H. WALLACE. — 


APPENDIX. 


A. 


Bureau oF Records Survivors’ ASSOCIATION 
* oF THE STATE OF SouTH CAROLINA. 


CHARLESTON, JuLy 1, 1870. 


Seem ee eee eee eee eee eee ee re eTE SESE SEEEEEESS HSSEEEHESEDEEEEE EEE SEED 


Dear Sir: The State Survivors’ Association desires to collect, 
preserve, and publish the Personal History of the troops fur- 
nished by South Carolina to the Confederate service. The 
Association desires first to publish the names of all entitled to a 
pune upon that glorious roll, and next, as far as possible, the 

istory of each and every one so enrolled. 

_ Taking up the work commenced by Professor Rivers during 

‘the war, the Executive Committee pr opose to go on with it—to 
‘obtain and perfect the rolls of companies, the records of regi- 
ments and the history of brigades, for immediate publication. 
Also to collect the rolls of the general and staff departments, to 
wit: General Officers, adjutant, medical, quartermaster and 

commissary departments, engineer and signal corps, etc., ete. 

_ The first step in this work is to obtain correct company and 
staffrolls. Few it may be of the originals remain, but as the 
companies were each formed in distinct neighborhoods, it is 
believed that rolls very nearly correct can now be made by the 
survivors from memory, if they will only seriously undertake 
the work. 

The Executive Committee of the State ask that you will 
make out from the original rolls, or from memory of your com- 
rades and yourself, rolls of your company or staff department, 
upon the blank form furnished herewith; and, when completed 
transmit the same to Colonel Edward McCrady, Jr., Chairman 
ve Committee State Survivors’ Association at Char- 
eston 

__ Lappeal earnestly to all who were in our service to co-operate 
with the Association in the object it has in view, as it is a 
matter of great historical importance, and should be one of 
pride that the name of every man given by our State to the 
Confederate service should be enrolled and preserved. Several 
of the Southern States are now preparing similar rolls, and it 


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will be a subject of emulation among all to ascertain, 
them gave most freely to our cause. 
If the information now sought by the Associa 
generally by those who are able to do so, our State, it 
will show a record surpassed in honor and brill 
other. 
Asking the cordial assistance of all who’ desire to 
the honor and to perpetuate the fame of our State, 
I am, very respectfully, WADE HAY 
President Survivors’ 





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C. " s 
Burzau or Recorps Survivors’ ASSOCIATION 
OF THE STATE OF SouTH CAROLINA. 


Cuarteston, 8. C., July 


Dear Sir: Please direct and send one of the enelc 
opes to the last commanding officer (or other most suit: 
person) of each company of yourregiment. 

You will give us valuable assistance if you will use your be 
exertions to have these Rolls filled up and returned as ct 
at the earliest possible moment. ‘ » J ee 

Yours, very truly, { nol 
EDWARD McCRADY, Jt 


Chairman Executive Co 


D. 


List of Officers to whom Circulars and forms of Rolls were sent 
upon recommendation of Brigade Commanders. 


Ist 8. C. V. (Gregg’s), Lieut.-Col. A. P. Butler, Edgefield. 

Ist 8. C, V. (Hagood’s), Col. James Hagood, Barnwell. 

2d 8. C. V., Col. William Wallace, Columbia. 

4th 8. C. V., (Palmetto S. 8.), Col. Joseph A. Walker, Spar- 
tanburg. 

5th 8. C. V., Col. Asberry Coward, Yorkville. 

6th 8. C. V., Col. I. M. White, Fort Mills, York. 

7th 8. C. v., Col. D. W. Aiken, Cokesbury. 

10th and 19th S. C. V., Lieut. Col. C. I. Walker, Charleston. 

11th S. C. V., Col. F. H. Gantt, Bamberg. 


12th S. C. v., Col. T. F. Clyburne, Lancaster. 
13th S. C. V., Col. I. F. Hunt, Charleston. 

14th S. C. V., Col. J. N. Brown, Anderson. 

15th S. C. V., Col. James McCutchen, Kingstree. 
16th 8. C. V., Col. James McCullough, Greenville. 
17th 8. C. V., Col. F. W. McMaster, Columbia. 
18th 8. C. V., Lieut.-Col. W. B. Allison, Yorkville. 
20th S. C. V., Capt. J. D. Wilson, Society Hill. 


23d S. C. V., Col. H. L. Benbow, Clarendon. 

24th S. C. V., Gen. Ellison Capers, Greenville. 

25th S. C. V., Col. C. H. Simonton, Charleston. 

26th 8. C. V., Lieut.-Col. J. W. Hudson, Bennettsville. 

27th S. C. V., Col. Peter C. Gaillard, Charleston. 

Ist 8. C. Rifles, Col. George McD. Miller, Abbeville. 

Hampton Legion, Gen. M. W. Gary, Edgefield. 
' Ist S. C. C., Col. J. L. Black, Columbia. 

3d 8. C. C., ‘Lieut. Thomas H. Colcock, Charleston. 

4th 8. C. C., Col. Benjamin H. Rutledge, Charleston. 

5th S. C. C., Col. Zimmerman Davis, Charleston. 

6th S. C. C., Lieut.-Col. L. P. Miller, Georgetown. 

7th S. C. C., Col. A. C. Haskell, Columbia. : 

Ist Artillery Regulars, Lieut. S. Cordes Boylston, Adjutant, 
Charleston. 

Lucas’ Battalion Artillery, Maj. J. J. Lucas, Society Hill. 

Manigault Battalion Artillery, Maj. Edward Manigault, 
Charleston. 

7th Battalion’ (Enfield) Infantry, Lieut.-Col. J. H. Rion, 
Winnsboro. 

4th Battalion Infantry, Capt. Y. J. Pope, Newberry. 

Bachman’s UES) Artillery, Lieut. James Simons, Jr., 
Charleston. 


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McIntosh’s Battery Artillery, Capt. Edward McIntosh 
ciety Hill. 

Marion Battery Artillery, Lieut. Robt. Murdoch, Charles O 
Washington Battery Artillery, Capt. Geo. H. Walter, Char 
ton. : 

German Battery (A) Artillery, Capt. Fred. Wagener, c 
ton. ata: 
German Battery (B) Artillery, Capt. Franz Melchers, C C. 
ton. 
Waties’ Battery Artillery, Capt. John W. Waties, Colu 
Palmetto Guard Battery —— Maj. G. = Buist, 
ton. P 
Macbeth Battery Artillery, Gage. Wm. Muna Unions vig 
DePass Battery Artillery, Capt. Wm. L. DePass, Camde ie 
Gist Guard Battery Artillery, Capt. C. H. Chichester, Char 
ton. 


Hi. 


Regiments, Battalions, and Batteries of the Commanders of which 


the Board could not obtain the addresses with sufficient accu- 
racy to issue Circulars and Rolls. 


8th 8. C. V., Infantry. Preston Battery. 
21st. 8. C. V., Infantry. Ferguson Battery. 
2nd S. C. Rifles. Chesterfield Battery. 
5th Battalion Infantry. Stanley’s Battery. 
2nd 8. C. Cav. Bonneau’s Battery. 
Ist Vol. Artillery. Ward’s Battery. 
Palmetto Batt. Artillery. Garden’s Battery. 
Gaillard’sBattery. 


List of Officers from whom Returns of Rolls have been amie 


Captain Josiah Cox, Co. F, Ist 8. C. V., (Gregg’s.) © 

Major Hdward Brailsford, Co. I, Ist §. C. V. , (Grege’s.) % 

Captain James Armstrong, dies Co. K, 1st 8. C. V. "(Greg’s.) 

Captain Wm. A. Kelly, Co. L, Ist 8. C. V. pee) _ 4 

Captain John D. McConnell, Co, H, 5th 8. C 

Captain Wm. D. Camp, Co. I, 5th 8. CV. 

Captain B. P. Alston, Co. B, 6th S. C. V. 

Captain E. Cowan, Co. G, 14th S. C. V. 

Captain John Floyd, Co. I, 18th 8, C. V. 

Captain H. EK. L. Peeble, Co. EH, 19th S. C. V. 

Lieutenant R. H. McCaslain, Co. H, 19th 8. C. V. © 

Colonel 8S. M. Boykin, Co. A, 20th S. C. V. 

Captain W. W. Carrington, Co. G, 23d 8. C. V. 

Captain J. R. Risher, Co. H, 24th S. C. V. 

Captain James L. Sansberry, Co. G, 26th S. C. V. 

Lieutenant Hopson Pinckney, Co. H, 3d 8. C. Cay. 

Captain J. E. Edwards, Co. A, 5th 8. C. Cav. 

Captain Henry Mclver, Co. A, 4th 8. C. Cav. 

Captain Rich’d Coleock, 4th S. C. Cav. 

Lieutenant Guignard Richardson, Co. B, Lucas’ Battalion. 
_ Captain Franz Melchers, Co. B, German Artillery. 





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G. 


Roster of General Officers appointed by the Governor of South 
Curolina, under “ An-act to provide an Armed Force,” passed 
17th December, 1861. 


Major General M. L. Bonham. 
Brigadier Generals P. H. Nelson, T. G. Rhett, Samuel Mc- 
Gowan, A. C. Garlington. 


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G.— Continued. 


Roster of General Officers appointed from South Carolina, 
PLANES. 


LIEUTENANT GENERALS: 


1—1 Richard H. Anderson, rank May 31, 1864, 
2—2 Stephen D. Lee, rank June 23, 1864. 
3—3 Wade Hampton, rank February, 1865. 


MAJOR GENERALS: 


4—1 Benjamin Huger, rank October 7, 1861. 
2 Richard H. Anderson, rank July 14, 1862; promoted 
Lieutenant General. 

3 Stephen D. Lee, rank August 3, 1863; promoted Lieu- 
tenant General. 

4 Wade Hampton, rank September 3, 1863; promoted 
Lieutenant General. 
5—5 Joseph B. Kershaw, rank May 18, 1864. 
6—6 M. C. Butler, rank September 19, 1864. 










BRIGADIER GENERALS: 


7—1 M. L. Bonham, rank April 13, 1861; resigned, reap- 
pointed October 21, 1861. 

8—2 Barnard E. Bee, rank June 17, 1861; killed Manassas, 
July 21, 1861. ; 

3 Richard H. Anderson, rank July 19, 1861; promoted 

Major General. 

9—4 R.S. Ripley, rank August 15, 1861. 

10—5 Thomas F. Drayton, rank September 25, 1861. 

11—6 N. G. Evans,* rank October 21, 1861. 

12—7 James H. Trapier,* rank October 21, 1861. 

13—8 Maxcy Gregg, rank December 14, 1861; died of — 
wounds received at Fredricksburg, December 13, — 
1862. 

9 Joseph B. Kershaw, rank February 15, 1862; pro 

moted Major General. 

14-10 J. Johnson Pettigrew, rank February 26, 1862; died — 
of wounds received July 14, 1864, near Falling 
Waters. 

15-11 J. B. Villipigue, rank March 18, 1862; died November 
9, 1862. 


* Died since the war. 





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16-12 States R. Gist, rank March 20, 1862; killed at Franklin, 


13 


17-14 
18-15 


16 


19-17 
20-18 
21-19 
, 20 
22-21 


23-22 


24-23 
25-24 
26-25 
27-26 
28-27 
29-28 


30-29 
31-30 


~~ 32-31 


33-32 


Tenn., November 30, 1864. 

Wade Hampton, rank May 23, 1862; promoted Major 
General. 

Johnson Hagood, rank July 21, 1862. 

M. Jenkins, rank July 22, 1862; killed Wilderness, 
May 6, 1864. 

Stephen D. Lee, rank November 6, 1862; promoted 
Major General. 

Samuel McGowan, rank January 17, 1863. 

Arthur M. Manigault, rank April 26, 1863. 

John S. Preston, rank August, 1863., 

M. C. Butler, rank September 1, 1863. 

Abner Perrin, rank September 17, 1863; killed Spott- 
sylvania, May 12, 1864. 

Clement H. Stevens, rank February 1, 1864; killed 
Atlanta, July, 1864. 

James Chestnut, rank April 23, 1864. 

James Conner, rank May 1, 1864. 

John Bratton, rank May 6, 1864. 

Stephen Elliott, Jr.,* rank May 28, 1864. 

M. W. Gary, rank May 19, 1864. 

John Dunnovant, rank July, 1864, killed Vaughn Road, 
October 1, 1864. 

William H. Wallace, rank September 20, 1864. - 

Ellison Capers, rank November 30, 1864. 

J. D. Kennedy, rank December 22, 1864. 

T. M. Logan, rank February 15, 1865. 





* Died since the war. 


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G.— Continued. 
Roster of General Officers, Natives of South Corolina, Appointed 
from other States, P. A. C. S. 


LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, 


1. James Longstreet; date of rank October 9, 1862 
appointed from Alabama. ; 










MAJOR-GENERALS, 


1. James Longstreet; date of rank October 7, 1861; 
appointee from Alabama ; promoted Lieutenant-General. i 
. D. Harvey Hill; date of rank March 26, 1862; appointet 
ae: North Carolina. 
3. W. H. T. Walker; date of rank May 23, 1863; appointel 
from Georgia; killed. a 


BRIGADIER-GENERALS, 


1. W. H. T. Walker; date of rank May 25, 1861; appointed 
from Georgia; promoted Major-General May 25,1863.  . — 
2. D. Harvey Hill; date of rank July 10, 1861 ; appoiai 
from North Carolina. a 
3. A. H. Gladden; date of rank September 30, 1861 
appointed from Louisiana ; Kxilled at Shiloh. q 
4. L. T. Wigfall ; date of rank October 21, 1861; appointe 
from Texas. 
5. Hamilton R. Bee; date of rank March 4, 1862; appointe 
from Texas. 
6. E. M. Law; date of rank October 3, 1862; appointed from © 
Alabama. q 
7. Z. C. Deas; date of rank December 13, 1862; appointed 
from Alabama. 4 
8. James Canty; date of rank January 8, 1863; appointed 
from Alabama. . a 
9. Samuel W. Ferguson ; date of rank July 28, 1863 ; appoli | 
from Mississippi. , 


G.— Continued. 


Organizations of South Carolina Troops Confederate States Army 
with Colonels of Regiments and Commanders of Battalions and 


Batteries. 
INFANTRY. 


‘1. Regiment, Ist S. C. V., (Gregg’s,) Colonels Maxcy Gregg, 
D. H. Hamilton, C. W. McCreary. 
2. Regiment, Ist 8. C.. V., (Hagood’s,) Colonels Johnson 
Hagood, T. J. Glover, Kirkpatrick Jas. Hagood. 
3. Regiment, 2nd 8. C. V., Colonels J. B. Kershaw, J.“ D. 
Kennedy, Wm. Wallace. 
4, Regiment, 3rd §. C. V., Colonels J. H. Williams, J. D. 
Nance. 
5. Regiment, 4th S. C. V., Colonel J. E. B. Sloan, 
6. Regiment, 5th 8S. C. Y,, Colonels M. Jenkins, Asberry 
Coward. 
7. Regiment, 6th 8. C. V., Colonels Jas. H. Rion, John Bratton. 
8. Reziment, 7th S. C. Ni, Colonels T. G. Bacon, D. Wyatt 
Aiken. 
9. Regiment, 8th S. C. V., Colonels E. B. Cash, J. W. Hen- 
negan. 
10. Regiment, 9th S. C. V., Colonel J. D. Blanding. 
11. Regiment, 10th S. C. "V., Colonels A. M. Manigault, Sek. 
Pressley. 
12. Regiment, Lith 8. C, V., Colonels Wm. C. Heyward, F. H. 
Gantt. 
13. Regiment, 12th S. C. V., Colonels R. G. M. Dunnovant, 
' Dixgn Barnes, Cad. Jones, J. L. Miller, Edwin L. Bookler. 
14. Regiment, 13th S. C. V,, Colonels O. E. Edwards, B. T. 
Brockman, I. F. Hunt. 
15. Regiment, 14th 8. C. V., Colonels James Jones, Saml. 
McGowan, Abner Perrin, J. N. Brown. 
16. Regiment, 15th 8. C. Mig Colonels W. D. DeSaussure, Joseph 
F. Gist, Jas. W. McCutchen, 
17: Regiment, 16th 8. C. V., -Colonels C. J. Elford, Jas. McCul- 













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lough. 
18. Ptimont, 17th S: C. V., Colonels J. H. Means, F. W: Mc- 
Master. 
19. Regiment, 18th 8. C. V., Colonels J. M. Gadberry, W. H. 
| Wallace. 


0. Regiment, 19th 8. C. V., Colonels W. C. Moraigne, A. H. 
__ Lythgoe, T. P. Shaw. 

1. Regiment, 20th S. OC. V., Colonels L. M. Keitt,S. M. Boykin. 

22. Regiment, 21st 5. C. i Colonel R. F. Graham. 


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23. Regiment, 22d S. C. V., Colonels Joseph Abney, S. D. Gooc 
lett, O. M. Dantzler, D. Fleming, G. W. Burt. ae 
_ 24 Regiment, 23d 8. C. vy. Colonels L. M. Hatch, H. IL. Be 









bow. 
25. Regiment, 24th S.C. V., Colonels C. H. Stevens, Elliso 
Capers, B. Burgh Smith. a 


26. Regiment, 25th S. C. V., Colonel C. H. Simonton. 
27. Regiment, 26th 8. C. V., Colonel Smith. 
28. Regiment, 27th S. C. iy Colonel Peter C. Gaillard. : 
29. Regiment, Ist Regulars, Colonels R. H. Anderson, Jol 
Dunnovant, Wm. Bulter. 
30. Regiment, Ist Rifles, (Orr’s,) Colonels J. L. Orr, 38 
Marshall, Jas. M Perrin, F. E. Harrison, G. W. D. Mille 
31., Regiment, 2d Rifles, Colonels J. V. Moore, “R. E. Bowen. 
32. "Regiment, Hampton Legion,* Colonels. Wade oop 
W. Gary, T. M. Logan. 
33. Regiment, Holcombe Legion, Colonels P. F. Stevensiil 
P. Shingler, — Crawley. $3 
34. Regiment, Palmetto Sharp Shooters, Colonels M. Jenkir 
Joseph A. Walker. 
Battalion, 3d, (James,) Lieutenant- Colonels Geo. S, Jame 
W. G. Rice. 7 
Battalion, 7th, (Endfield,) Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Nelson 


CAVALRY. 


Regiment, Ist S. C. C., Colonel J. L. Black. 
Regiment, 2d S. C. C., Colonels M. C. Butler, Thos, J. Li 
comb, 

Regiment, 3d S. C. C., Colonel C. J. Colcock. 
Regiment, 4th S. C. C., Colonel B. H. Rutledge. 
Regiment, 5th 8. ©. C., Colonels Saml. W. Fergt Jot 
-  Dunnovant. 

Regiment, 6th 8. C. C., Colonel H. K. Aiken. 
Regiment; 7th 8. C. C., Colonel A. C. Haskell. 


ARTILLERY. 


Regiment, Ist Regulars, Colonels Ransom D. Calhoun, 4 
Rhett. ; 

Regiment, 2d Volunteers, Colonel Thos. L. Lamar. 

Battalion, Lucas, Major J. J. Lucas. 

Battalion, Palmetto, Major E, B. White. 

Battalion, Manigault, Majors Edwd. Manigault, S. D. Byrd. 

Battalion, Palmetto Guards, Major G. L. Buist. 

Battery, Washington, Captains S. D. Lee, J. F. Hart, 
Halsey. 


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* Afterwards Mounted. 


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Battery German, (Bachman’s,) Captain W. K. Bachman. 
Battery, German, A, Captain Fred. Wagener. 
Battery, German, B, Captain Franz Melchers. 
Battery, Regulars, Captain W. C. Preston, Junr. 
Battery, McIntosh, Captains D. G. McIntosh, E. B. Brunson, 
Edw. Melntosh. 
Battery, Marion, Captain Edw. L. Parker. 
Battery, Lafayette, Captain J. T. Kanapaux. 
_ Battery, Washington, 8. C., Captain Geo. H. Walter. 
Battery, Chesterfield, Captain — Coit. 
Battery, Macbeth, Captains R. Boyve, Wm. Munro. 
Battery, Wagner, Captain C. EK. Kanapaux. 
Battery, Ferguson, Captain T. Ferguson. 
Battery, Waties, Captain J. W. Waties. 
Battery, Beaufort, Captain Stephen Elliott. 
- Battery, Gist Guard, Captain C. EH. Chichester. 
Battery, Alston, Captain Chas. Alston. 
_ Battery, Matthew, Captain Bonneau. 
Battery, Ward, Captain Josiah Ward. 
_ Battery, Garden, Captain Hugh Garden. 
Battery, Stanley, Captain Stanley. 
Battery, Gaillard, Captain Gaillard. 


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~ G.— Continued. 


Brigade Organization South Carolina Troops. 





Bonuam’s, KeERSHAW’S,|ANDERSON’S, JENKINS’,| GrEGe’s, McGov 
CONNER’S. BRaTTON’s. ist S. C. Volun 


2d 8. C. Volunteers. list S. C. Volunteers.— (Gregg’s.). 
3d S. C. Volunteers. (Hagood’s.) 12th 8S. C. Vol 
7th S. C. Volunteers. [5th S. C. Volunteers. |13th S.C Volur 
8th S. C. Volunteers. 16th S. O. Volunteers. 14th S. C. Volun 
15th S. C. Volunteers. 42d S. C. Rifles. Ist S.«C. Rifles. 
20th S. C. Volunteers. |Palmetto Sharpshooters. ' 
3d, 7th (James) Battal- 
ion. i 
EVAN’s, WALKER’S, EL-! Hacoop’s. ' G@ist’s, CAPE 
LroT1’s, WALLACE’S. |11th S. C. Volunteers. |16th S. C. Volun 
17th S. C. Volunteers. |21st S. C. Volunteers. (24th S. G. We 
18th S. C. Volunteers. [25th S. C. Volunteers. and ; 
22d S. C. Volunteers. 27th S. C. Volunteers. |Georgia Regiments. — 
23d S. C. Volunteers. |7th (Enfield’s) Battalion. 
26th 8S. C. Volunteers. | 
Holcombe Legion. | | 

















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MaNIGAULT’S. HAMPTON’s, BULTER’s, RuGuLaR. 
10th S. C. Volunteers. Logan’s. 1st Artillery. 
19th S. C. Volunteers|1st S. C. Cavalry. 2d Infantry. 
and 2d 8. C. Cavalry. Lucas Battalion. 





Alabama Regiment. 4thS. C. Cavalry. 
“—~—~—Garys. «(th S. C. Cavalry. 


Hemnaionl legion: lth S. C. Cavalry. | 
| 


7th S. C. Cavalry. | 
MrEMoRANDUM.—The 4th and 9th S.C. V. were disbanded at the exp 

tion of the 12 months for which they were enlisted. The 348. C0. Cavs 

was not brigaded with S. C. troops. 





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ADDRESS 


DELIVERED BEFORE THE a i 
SURVIVORS’? ASSOCIATION 
OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 


AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING IN COLUMBIA, NOVEMBEI 
10, 1870, 


BY 


BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOHN §. PRESTON, 








“It has been said that History has no record of the Life of Leonidas, # 
Spartan, but that its brightest pages glow with his death. His Epitaph 
his history.’’ 


r _ Cotumpta, S. C., November 12th, 1870. 
General John S. Preston : 4 
My prar GENERAL: I have the honor to deliver to you th 
resolutions* adopted as expressive of the grateful appreciatio 
and the hearty approval felt by the Survivors’ Association ¢ 
the hearing of the address delivered by you before your fellow 
associates on the 10th inst. ; 
I have the honor to be, 
With respect and regard, 
Your obedient servant, 4 
A. C. HASKELL, Seeretari 


CotumBra, November 12th, 1870. 

Colonel A. GC. Haskell, Secretary : 
My par CotoneL: I receive with emotions of the profoun 
est gratitude the resolutions adopted by the Survivors’ Associa | 
tion, expressing their hearty approval of the address I delivere 
under their order. I endeavored to speak as I knew the survi- 


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* See resolutions of Col. Shannon in proceedings 1870. 


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vors of our glorious struggle for liberty felt—to utter their feel- 
ings. If I have done so, I am content, under God’s providence, 
to wear out the chances of life in the faith of our lost cause, 
and in the hope for its redemption. The survivors of Sidney 
Johnston, Leonidas Polk, Stonewall Jackson, Robert Lee, and 
our brothers, can never falter in the faith for which they died. 

I will place the address in the hands of the Executive Com- 
mittee. Faithfully yours, 

JOHN S. PRESTON. 





ADDRESS. 


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I have seen it quoted in history, that long ages ago, the 1 
pine forests were fired by the Barbarians, and ‘from the de 
fissures burned into the earth, there flowed streams of pure 
silver which enriched all the plains of Italy. 14 

Patriotism is that virtue which crowns with laurel the livi 
brow and embalms, in the most fragrant spices, the memory 6 
the dead. 


Gentlemen of the Survivors’ Association of South Carolina, Co 1 
rades of the Armies of the Confederacy : 


I propose to recite to you some of the nearest causes of tha 
war, of which our dead brothers are the justified heroes and w 
are the survivors. 

I will then endeavour to relate in very general terms some 0} 
the incidents of that marvellous war, familiar perhaps to mos 
of us, in which the patriotism of our brothers was so displayed 
as to entitle their memories to be embalmed in honour, and t 
to a just pride in sharing that honour. The first is intended te 
show with what absolute justification we engaged in an unequa 


strength a people will struggle for Right, and Truth and Liberty 
and what mighty valour devoted patriotism will display in that 
struggle. I must then tell you of a people fatally subdued, wit 
a lost country, lost liberty, dwelling in dreary despair beneat 
a cruel, remorseless and vulgar despotism. 

My narrative must be very simple and brief too, for our them 
is too grand, too solemn, too sorrowful for mere swelling sou 
No polished forms are needed to commend it to our hearts. 
is a tale full of woe and very pitiful. I willseek, therefore, o1 
to trace the succession of events, not to record them, but 
call up the undying memories of those incidents which ha 
gilded, with unfading lustre, the names and deeds of our de; 
brothers. . 

What duties, what obligations devolve on us as the survive 
of those events, which took from us our brothers lives, and @ 
liberties are easily deducible from the simplest narrative, al 
from those things we daily see all around us. From the circu! 
stances which attended the attainment and gradual developme 
of our liberties are derived the most potent arguments for the 
defence against aggression, and from those which marked their 
rapid destruction are deduced the highest demands on us to se 


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their resumption, and thus to rend the black vail of despair which 
overhangs us. 

This occasion suggests the theme. It is a formal meeting of 
the Survivors’ Association of South Carolina, five years after 
the war, to perform solemn rites in memory of our dead, and to 
show the world and transmit to posterity our faith in their justi- 
fication. 

I pray you, brother soldiers, go patiently with me for an hour 
while with my feeble light I try to conduct you through some 
wonderful manifestations of virtue in a people, who always 
crowned success with gratitude to God and mercy to man, and 
gilded defeat with humble faith and heroic fortitude, who know- 
ing no mode of concession in a struggle for Truth could only be 
starved and slaughtered into a submission, revolting to every 
sentiment of their nature. 

In the movements of human society, no single cause is suffi- 
cient for revolutionary results. The causes of our war with 
‘the people of New England and their allies, were various; 
|}some manifest from the beginning of our unnatural Union with 
‘them, others more recondite but not less potential. Chief 
|among the latter may be placed the antagonistic genius of the 
Northern and Southern people; more diverse than the Dacian 
and the Roman, or the Teuton and the Celt, far more diverse 
than the people of Prussia and France. This antagonism had 
engrossed the whole social nature and habitudes of the two 

ple, growing out of the different circumstances which 
marked their origin on this Continent, and the different physi- 
¢al moral and domestic influences which have controlled them 
over two centuries. It is a very frequent result in man’s 
istory. Indeed, perhaps, most of the vicissitudes of nations 
Imay be traced directly to this source, so potential at times as 
ito overlay all the influences of common origin and territorial 
contiguity. We have only to refer to the near examples of the, 
Rhine, the Alps, the Straits of Dover, even the Irish Channel, 
8 keeping peoples as distinct as half a sphere. It is a truth 
we should never forget that this cause is of sufficient magnitude 
(0 demand that the political and civil institutions of these two 
people can never coalesce in amity, except by the absolute 
submission of one to the other. Bondage and privilege, or at 
least some form of civil pupillage seems almost an imperative 
aw in national life. Governments to be free, must be strong, 
that be not a paradox—and must have an outlet, a safety- 
lve for the escape of tyranny, for tyranny is the lust of 
ower, or they will become oppressive, or die of self-pollution. 
+ is, a subtle problem, but often solved by the logic of history. 
) keep New England in the form of freedom, she has chosen, 
South must be enthralled to gratify the lust of avarice and 
he lust of power. The instinct ‘Of this necessity culminated in 




















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the tremendous war, from which we survive to pay the trib 
which the sea-monster demands. Minor discrepancies may 
overcome or removed by the power even of forced: -associati 
Your agricultural societies may bring grasses and shrubs whi 
will grow and flourish here, but the live oak and the palme 
admit no foreign graff and demand their own soil, You cant 
transplant them to the inhospitable regions of the North 
was the unacknowledged, but prevailing existence of f 
fundamental antagonism which carried Sherman’s torches over 
the land, and keeps Grant’s bayonnettes in Richmond and 
Columbia, and makes the agent of force and fraud the onl 
umpire which can sit in judgment between the people of © th 
North and the people of the South. Remove that and y 
would be freed in an hour. This, then, is of itself a sufficier 
cause for that war, which has brought. us to the woeful pli 
of chain-bound subjects. 
Second, The disagreement of these two people concerning tk 
form and terms of the common government prescribed by tl 
Constitution of the United States, was an ample cause of war, 
In regard to the operation and administration of that Constita- 
tion, Patrick Henry, as the representative of the people of the 
South, manifested a degree of analytic and prophetic states- 
manship, never excelled since the institution of the Roms 
Empire. That was a wonderful analysis, when amid the 
tumultuous, enthusiastic and almost frantic roar for its adop- 
tion, he said calmly and sternly, “when this instrument com 
fers power its language is clear, unequivocal and terribly ex- 
plicit ; but when it speaks of rights and privileges, there is an 
ambiguity, a fatal ambiguity.” We in our own persons, and by 
the graves of our brothers, have proved that this Constituti 
was but a shrewd and ingenious and elaborate device to gi 
power at the expense of liberty; an ambiguity, a fatal a 
_biguity. Mr. Henry assumed that this device—which hood 
winked and deluded the noblest band of patriotic statesmen 
who. ever struggled for true liberty—changed fundamentally al 
the relations of the States, destroyed their sovereignty, and 
made a solid Empire. This, he proclaimed, must be the result, 
notwithstanding all the arguments, all the protestations, all the 
faith of the greatest living statesman, in his own words: 
“ Despite an erring world.” “i 
Southern people believe the Constitution to be what Henr 
and all-Southern people wished it to be—a perfect guarant 
the segregate sovereignty of the States. But Henry and Ge 
Mason instinctively detected the features which have ca 
the lamentable results of our day ; and Randolph, of Roan 
said, “I saw the Constitution in its chrysalis state, and 
what Washington did not see, and only Patrick Henry al 


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George Mason saw—the fatal poison which lurked under its 
wings.” It was the essence of this poison falling from the lips 
of Webster, when he uttered the paltry phrase of “Union and 
Liberty,” instead of the God-like words, “ Liberty and Inde- 
pendence.” 

I venture to believe, that if in 1790 we had begun to fight 
against that instrument, instead of in 1860 to fight under it, we 
would sooner have brought the contest to a happier end, and 
that, instead of this day standing here in chains, weeping over 
our dead brothers, we would be dictating the destinies of this 
Continent. Still Ido not doubt but that our construction was 
the one of truth, and that of the North altogether forced, un- 
natural, and illogical. It was the nationality of the people of 
‘America against the sovereignty of the people of the States, 
and the decision of the question involved the whole system of 
Civilism in all its relations and ramifications, and was, therefore, 
ample cause for war and separation, and did completely justify 
our recourse to that alternative when it was forced upon us. 

_ Third, The world has been wickedly taught, and foolishly be- 
lieves, that we resorted to war solely to preserve our institution 
of African slavery. Suppose that to have been the only cause 
of our resistance. I assert that we had in it the amplest justi- 
fication, in necessity, in public policy and economy, and in the 
best attributes of civilization as ascertained by experience and 
‘enjoyment. Public necessity and policy justified it because our 
whole system of civil and social organism was based on this 
form of slavery; and, therefore, the slightest regard to the true 
Principles of liberty and self-government would have left its 
| control exclusively with us. But besides this, there were thou- 
‘ands of millions of material wealth indissolubly involved in 
|the maintenance of slavery, the destruction of which it was ap- 
ences, and is now proved, would destroy the whole econo-: 
mical condition of our country. And to this sufficient fact were 
conjoined public morality and progressive power and civilization, 
in the further fact, that notwithstanding sixty years of inexora- 
ble opposition to, and fanatic phrenzy against slavery, robbing 
its products by fraud and force, no part of Christendom, where 
|agriculture was the natural and main industry, did advance with 
such rapidity and firmness, in every department of social de- 
/velopment, as in the States and with the people where slavery 
existed. Beyond all cavilling of logic or morals, African 
Slavery was the basis of the material and social superiority of 
‘the Southern people on this continent. It gave its hundreds of 
millions of dollars to the commerce of the world; it gave its 
/millions of pagans to Christianity. It cleared forests, and built 
ehurches, and gave culture, refinement, and religion to the wil- 
ness. Pure religion, refined morals, affluent wealth chari- 
tably used, happiness and contentment were growing over the 












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land, and made the South so strong and s0 fair as to tempt the 
avarice and madden the envy of our natural enemies, and they 
rose and girded their swords, and slew our brothers, and took 
away our governments, which made us free, and our slaves 
which made us rich, and burned our houses, in which we were 
happy, and burned our churches in which we meekly and grate- 
fully worshipped the true God, and changed all our Eden 
the hell which swarms around us. And to prevent this, were 
we not justified in resistance and war? a 
And thus the war began, for I need not weary you with de 
tailing any more of the scores of causes which led to it. Thus 
the war began. On one side a people fighting for the rights 
their fathers gave them, for self-government, for a glorious 
liberty, for a fair and beautiful land, for a happy and virtuous 
prosperity ; a people who sought only to be let alone, and 
worship their God in the name of Jesus Christ. On the other 
side, a people restless and turbulent with the passions of aya- 
rice and fanaticism, discontented with true liberty, impatien 
of Christ’s humble faith, eager and strong in material power, 
but without one elevating principle of patriotism, of public or 
personal morality. a 
On the field of Manassas these diverse, antagonistic people 
first met in hostile array, and a countless horde of fanatic plum. 
derers fled like sheep before the instinctive prowess of the 
patriot soldier defending the land, the homes and altars of 
his fathers, and whose only spell-word was liberty! but not 
before their villain and cowardly arms had written in blood 
more than one bright name on the dead-roll of our Associatior 
Thus, then, in brief, began the general war; and I dare, solemnly, 
submit to a posterty freed from the interests of the hour; | 
dare, humbly, to submit to that God of Right, in whose presence 
the spirits of our dead brothers now stand, and say: “ Father _ 
are they not justified of Thee.” Yes, before the earth, before 
the Heavens, our dead brothers live the justified martyrs of 
Liberty and of Truth. 
But long before the general struggle began, the soldiery of 
which we are the remnant had made their names agi for 


proudest trophies of human strength and art, so long as th 
pulse of the sea beats on the shores of this New World, so lon 
will oblivion fail to know the “ Ruins of Fort Sumter, ” th 
first prize of Carolina’s heroism, the last shelter of Carolina 
liberty. § 

And the day will come when every ship, from every land 
which sails on the sea towards the shores of Carolina, will trail 
its flag and toll its bell, and men of every nation will stand 
uncovered as they pass the Ruins of Fort Sumter: . 


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9) 


“ Wreedom hallows with her tread 
The silent cities of the dead; 
For beautiful in death are they 
Who proudly fall in her array; 
And soon, oh Goddess, may we be, 
Forever more with them—or Thee!’’ 


When one daughter of Hrectheus, King of Athens, was con- 


_demned by the Oracles to be sacrificed for her country, all her 


sisters voluntarily joined her in the sacrifice. South Carolina 
was the chosen one for our sacrifice, because her heart had been 
purest and her robes whitest; but the first fillet had not been 
woven for her brow, before every Southern sister was by her 
side arrayed like herself. 

Brother Soldiers, 1 have told you that I would endeavour 
to group and relate some of the incidents of that war in which 
the virtue and valour of our dead was so displayed as to entitle 
them to the honours we offer, and warrant us in rendering those 
honours. The cataclysm of blood, and thestifling misery of our 
slavery had confused my memory. I had lost place and time, 
and lived only in dazy mourning. I appealed to our gallant 
and devoted Secretary for the record. It was my purpose from 
it to try to narrative some of the great deeds of the living and 
the dead, and thereby wake the proud memory or woo the 


“silent tear, to try to count from the record the countless num- 


bers, who in the beginning rushed into the battle for liberty, 
and then to tell the meagre list of the bleeding remnant, who 
in the end survive to wear the chains of tyranny, to show how, 


always in the front, on every field our brothers blood hallowed 


the earth, from Gettysburg to Galveston. But why read over 


the 60,000 names which blazon the South Carolina roll of honour, 


or tell of the hundreds of battlefields, red with the blood of her 


“martyrs. We all know them, our little children lisp them.» 


B 


Did not your grey haired father fall in front of you at Mannas- 


sas. Did not your brother sink beside you at Petersburg. 
Did not your beautiful boy fall at your feet weltering in his 


: 


rich young blood on some field of Virginia, or Carolina, or 
Georgia. Did you not see the blazing home of your father’s, 
hear your mother’s wail and your fair sister’s maddened shriek. 


Oh God! my countrymen J dare not call you, with your still 


_ bleeding hearts and seared eyes, to gaze back on those most 


bloody and unnatural days. Go to your graveyards and weep 


in silence ; go to your desolate homes, and mourn in secret; go to 


the House of God, and pray for His mercy to your torn hearts, 


-and for His redemption of your lost country. Count, then, 


every name in South Carolina from sixteen to sixty years of 
age, and you have not yet all her muster roll. Write down 


- every battlefield and you have the record of her heroism; tell 


every story of noble daring and devoted fortitude, and you re- 


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peat the names of her sons; but every little child can read the — 
list and tell the sum of the roll of the survivors. -See then the — 
soldiers of Carolina, first at Sumter and Manassas, and her 2,000 _ 
out of 10,000 at Appomattox. Iam astounded at this record. 
I cannot select for rhetorical grouping, were I to do so, every — 
soldier here, would create another picture of other events of 
equal blazon. Where I to tell of Gregg’s First, they would think 
of twenty regiments of equalvalour. Were Tto tell of clubbing — 
muskets over the breastworks of Spotsylvania they would thiok 
of forty fields as stern and bloody. The effort is vain. We 
need not books, or monuments, or swelling words; it is here, 
here in our heart of hearts, and written in blood in the still un- ~ 
folded scroll of a God of Truth and Right. ah 
Let us then pass by the mere narrative of those glorious bu it 
sorrowful events of which we are the survivors, and glance for 
a moment at that living but unhealthy world, in which, craw-_ 
ling between heaven and earth, we are not allowed to dwell as” 
voluntary actors, or to escape the malaria of the filth which 
has flooded the land. But, my countrymen, while we look at 
it, let us not drag down our own bright traditions into that 
filth and mire which is suffocating us. Lay them up in the 
temples and holy places; keep them there, for there is not lef 
on earth one key for their just interpretation. Why, what liv- 
ing meaning to us now have the names of Washington, Jeffer- 
son and Henry; of Madison, Calhoun and Lowndes; of Me. 
Duffie, Cheves and Hayne; Eutaw, Cowpens, Yorktown ; ; of 
Fort Sumter, Manassas, Malvern: Hill, Chancellorsville, Fred- 
ricksburg or Appomattox ; of all our dead; while we, living, 
are clamoring piteously for an enslaved existence ; the right 
to breathe ; at the mercy of our slaves, and their ruffian and 
revolting associates. Here we stand to-night, in a temple dedi- 
cated to the God of Truth, from whose organ came the first — 
hymns that ushered our struggle for liberty, whining our pal- 
try murmurs; while, if I but pause a second, you can hear our 
master’s shout of triumph ringing through the streets. It does 
seem to me that in this shameful and infamous life of ours itis 
an added infamy, if not a blasphemy, to call ourselves Caroli- — 
nians. Carolinians! the slavish sires of hereditary bondsmen. 
“ Neque noctem aurora secuta est !” ‘= 
A Pagan robber said to a Christian king: “ My comrades and — 
I believe only in our swords; it is our only religion, and accord- 
ing to our faith it is all that i is necessary.” This is the practical 
application of that devilish phrase our cunquerors have dogm 
tised for our faith, and under the decrees of which we are 
breathing in this latter world, the divine right of numbers, — 
“the arbitrament of the sword.” The true explication of which — 
phrase is, that being overwhelmed in war, we must adopt not 
only the forms but the faith of our conquerors. 


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For more than seventy years we refrained from resorting to 
the sword, as a remedy for the tremendous error of our fathers 
in binding us to an unnatural and hateful union with an antag- 
onistic and repulsive people; and when at length that people 
drove us to its use in repelling actual hostile invasion, it resulted 
in that sad failure to defend ourselves and our country, which 
leaves us the survivors, and the living victims. No act of ours 
selected tHe arbitrament, and no concession of ours consented to 
its decree. Our enemies chose the tribunal and sent their 
Scythian hordes to enforce the “dogma of the sword.” We 
stood avowedly on self-defence, fighting against the assault of 
ten times our numbers, and the sympathies and supplies of the 
world, until we were starved and slaughtered into submisssion. 
Even then we made no concession of principle, but exbausted 
Nature refused us strength to raise an arm or utter a protest ; 
we surrendered no army of 200,000 equipped soldiers at Sedan, 
but at Appomattox, a starving skeleton, with scarce blood 
enough left to stain the swords of our conquerors ; our surren- 
der was not to New England but to Death. ’ 

Now, in the name of truth or even of a decent logic, what 
principle of faith could be thus settled? It is a logical 
absurdity and a moral infamy to assert that we have adopted a 
new faith by reason of the “arbitrament of the sword.” We 
live under constraint, under subjection, under subjugation ; we 
live under the cord that binds, and the lash that moves us; we 
are slaves. Treason to every tradition we have laid up in our 

holy places; treason to every grave in which the ashes we 
survive is mouldering; treason to every prayer uttered by 
our brothers as their life-blood gurgled out on the field of their 
glory ; treason to our outraged women and their fatherless 
children ; treason to God’s holiest name of truth may make 
us “accept the situation” as the arbitrament of the sword. 
But, if we take that declaration, as we must take it, that our 
brothers did not die for the truth, we utter the foulest lie with 
which men ever stigmatised themselves, their fathers or their 
brethren. The world we live in is not the world of our choice, 
or the decree of any tribunal which faith and justice declare 
legitimate. It is a world of fraud, of torce, and of subjugation ; 
else, all our past and this Association is a mockery, and this 
day’s solemn rites are filthy lies. The logic is as strong as the 
fact, that we never have given and never can give our assent to 
the decree which has been rendered ; and here, kneeling by the 
graves of our brothers, our sacred duty is, to enter our solemn 
appeal to the supreme God of Truth, and leave the judgment 
to no earthly tribunal. 

Pardon me, comrades, for saying a few more words on this 
topic. It is a very grave, a very solemn one. We have been 
much deluded by this vile phrase—the arbitrament of the 


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sword. It has satisfied the easy-going consciences of some we — 
thought among our best, and it has bewildered many honest 
and truthful minds. Br 
I think I have shown you we were justified in resorting to 
war; that it was prosecuted faithfully and heroically, and the 
world and our enemies have conceded that we fought on o 
consciences, and were not traitors. But I will not detain y 
with mere casuistical argumentation. One or two sce 
which have been enacted at remote intervals since our conquest 
was completed, will suffice to maintain my assumption—that 
we are the subjects of force and not the proselytes of faith. — 
After our armies were surrendered or captured, the people 
ruling the United States Government offered a reward.of one 
hundred thousand dollars for the capture of our Chief, Jefferson 
Davis. The world cried shame !—but the generic distinction 
between man and beast is, that the beast is incapable of 
shame—and the people and the soldiers of New England 
started in eager pursuit of the Confederate Chieftain, hot for 
the blood-money, He was seized and dragged to their strong- 
est fortress, chained like a felon, and thrust down below the 
sea level, in a double-tiled dungeon, this feeble old man, the 
prize of New England’s prowess, the prisoner of the sword of 
the great American Republic! They set to guard him legions 
of soldiers and squadrons of war ships; and all the men, and 
women and children of New England howled around his 
for a lap at the few drops of blood still creeping feebly through 
his heart. af 
The next scene in this strange drama is this same old man 
in the felon’s dock at Richmond, before New England’s C 
Judge, and his satellites, and mighty men, learned in their 
laws, to tell of his treasons, of rebellion, and insurrection, and 
violated constitutions, and all the jargon of insolent and 
cowardly triumph. But even Jeffrey and his hangmen shrank 
from touching his faith, for it abided in the impregnable law 
of truth. Their Congress then tried it, but sat silent under the 
poor shadow of shame that was left to them. But their people — 
must have blood, and they set devils, outcast from the So 
to glut their thirst in hellish orgies over a foreign subal 
and a poor, pitiful, halferazy woman. Before the Chris 
world they dare not touch one hair of him who stood clot 
in the robes of the Confederate faith—that faith which has — 
made his name illustrious over the earth, and to all coming — 
ages. Does the world give its applause to the faith which 4 
in a dungeon’s vault, or to the culprit in the felon’s dock? = 
One other scene to show what we and the world think of — 
this arbitrament of the sword. _ 
Within a little month (even as I was thinking of the meeting 
of this Survivors’ Association) the news came to Richmond that 





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General Lee was dead. In two hours all Christendom was 
shocked with the sound that the most illustrious man of the 
_ earth was dead; that the hero, the patriot, and the Christian 
who illustrated the age, was dead, and the earth left vacant 
of its greatest greatness ; the most majestic master of men, the 
purest patriot, the humblest follower of the meek and lowly 
Jesus, had joined in the royal fellowship of death with Stone- 
wall Jackson and our brothers! Why was the earth draped 
in mourning, and solemn bells tolled responsive around its 
circle? What made-Robert Lee the prime man of the age in 
which he lived, and the most mourned of all its dead? Why is 
the grave ot Lee richer in reverence than the jewelled tombs 
of kings? Why are the struggling nations, from the Thracian 
Bosphorus to the Pacific Ocean, preparing to pass, in endless 
_ procession; those tombs which mark with like glory the triumph 
of Washington and the failure of Lee? Did the arbitrament of 
the sword decide at Appomatox that the grave in God’s house 
at Lexington was to be filled with the bones of a traitor and 
felon? If that-be so, instead of being in that holy place to have 
the homage of a mourning world, send Sherman, and Hunter, 
and Sheridan to dig up Lee’s bones, and scatter them, like a 
beast’s, in the wilderness. If that be so, General, why do you 
not order us here to-night—the survivors of Lee’s peers—to 
form ranks, march out of this holy church, fling out the banner 
of New England, and, with penitential tears, and Grant’s myr- 
midons lashing our lagging steps, go to yonder burying-place, 
and, with these hands, unearth the dust from the graves our 
maidens have strewed with white flowers, and scatter it on the 
waters which will waft it to oblivion, beyond the shadow of the 
“Ruins of Fort Sumter ?” 

No, no, the sword is not the arbiter of man’s faith, but the 
instrument of his unnatural rage, whica, in all time, has swept 
from the earth the monuments of truth and virtue, Where, to- 
day, are all the free and struggling nations? Egypt, Israel, 
Greece, Rome—all, all mangled by the sword, and cast, in life- 
less fragments, on the waves of time. But, from that truth, 
which to-day mourns and weeps over this stricken land, the 
‘sword shrinks and cowers as the demon from the cross. It 
may cleave the altars of Liberty, and sunder the constitutions 
and life of nations, but it bas no steel hard or keen enough to 
cut from our hearts the faith in which our brothers died and 
we survive. Oh, if there be any here to-day, the baseless fabric 
of whose faith has been dissolved by the blood of his brothers, 
“before whose new-entranced gaze Cesar now wears the pur- 
pled honors, and shakes the purse of glittering gold ;” who, be- 
neath the pitiless contempt of his masters, spreads his greedy 
palm to catch the rotting garbage which the conqueror, in dis- 
dain, tosses from his triumphant chariot, at once, at once 


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“Let him go hence, and, with his cap in hand, 
Like a base pander, hold the chamber door, 
Whilst by a slave 
His fairest daughter is contaminate!” 


And never let good men tell his story to their children: 


‘«Hnough—no foreign foe could quell 
Thy soul till from itself it fell ! 
Yes, self-abasement paved the way, 
To villains’ bonds and despot sway !”’ 



















But this cannot be for us while we are thus banded to per- 
petuate the memory of our brothers, cemented by the blood of 
the martyrs of that august cause, consecrated in our hearts to — 
more than human sacredness and majesty. We stand here with 
chained hands, and muscles strained to bursting, beneath our 
burden, and hearts weeping blood as we gaze at the still smoul- 
dering ashes of our superb and beautiful land; but when we 
look in upon our free souls, we know that our faith in that 
cause is as immortal as the justified spirits of our comrades, 
now pleading for it in the very presence of a God of Truth and 
‘Right. 

It is difficult to suggest, and almost impossible to define, 
what duties may lay upon an enslaved people, whose liberty is 
judged by other men’s consciences, and whose food is the meat 
offered to other men’s idols, from whom every attribute of voli- 
tion is forcibly withheld, and upon whom every function of life 
which is repulsive to their habitudes is violently thrust by | 
relentless and persistent masters. Even if we dared, with fret-~ 
ful audacity, we cannot truthfully assert, for one moment, that 
we are not a subdued people, without one right of free-will 
action left to us. The grim mockeries which are flung at us, 
as a jailor tosses a blanket to a culprit who is to be hanged 
to-morrow, serve only to assure and clinch our debasement. 
Our conqueror claims and exercises all the powers of conquest— 
the powers—for conquest has no rights. Mahomet, Cortes and 
New England may call them rights, but it is only’ a brutal fic- 
tion. We wear the livery of our master, who forces us to forge 
the chains with which he binds our hands, to clamp them by 
our own acts, and then to kiss them in token of reverence and 
submission. And we do this hourly. We do it in every act of — 
citizenship we pretend to perform. He clutches us by the — 
throat, and crushes us down on our knees before his idols, Is, 

_ then, obedience to him the first duty of the Confederate sur- 
vivor? Merciful God! that we—we, born freemen—should be ~ 
sunk so low as to outrage humanity by asking the question, I 
pray you, brother soldiers, do not spit at me for uttering the 
thought. It is an old man’s hopelessless. No, by Heaven, we 
owe them no gratitude but to curse them; we owe them no — 


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obedience, but to raise our manacled hands and dash out their 
brains. We may dream we are honest when we swear alle- 
giance to them, but that is a wicked phantasm. We may recur 
to old traditions of a bastard brotherhood, or listen to the delu- 
sions of hope, but the law is inexorable over our souls. We 
cannot of our free will enact the lie of obedience to New Eng- 
land. It is only by the goad of the bayonet, and the scourge 
of the lash, that we now or ever can perform that duty. 

It seems to me, then, that our first active duty as members 
of this Association is to gather and preserve the records, which 
tell the virtue and the glory of our dead brothers, and, as early 
as practicable, have them arranged for transmitting that bright 
story to posterity. There be often in the world’s history names 
which have outlived the good they have done, and there have 
been myriads whose good deeds have outlived their names. It 
is these labourers in God’s fields whose harvest our children’s 
children must reap. We will all perish before it ripens, but in 
His good time, they will garner it up. Now, the part South 
Carolina acted in the tremendous drama, presents a spectacle 
rarely equalled in the world’s history, and should at once be 
grouped for the contemplation, and the instruction of the des- 
cendants of those, who where her actors. The world too must 
be truthfully told what we did and what we suffered. It is a 
tale of woe, but wonderfully glorious. Surely we have among 
us those whose pens can fitly record the deeds their swords so 
valiantly aided to perform. Before we all pass away, even 
while we are yet bondsmen, let us try to rescue our brothers 
fame from the lies of those, who, to hide their own shame, seek 
to render us infamous. This is our first and most sacred duty, 
it is all we can do for the dead, and it is enough, for it gives to 
them the full reward of the hero and the patriot ; the applause, 
the gratitude and the veneration of posterity. 

Our first duty to ourselves and all our living is to devote 
every energy of our being to rédeem the desolations of our 
precious old State, this dear, dear Carolina, now hemmed, and 
harrowed, and polluted, foul vermin breeding in her heart, 
and obscene beasts gnawing at her already whitened bones. 
Need I say to her sons, that in doing this, we must preserve 
untarnished our personal honour; ahd keep ourselves unspotted 
from the leprosy which is flowingaround us. Another duty we 
have, or rather a part of that I have indicated, is to join with 
and encourage the hopeful spirit which dictates these Indus- 
trial Exhibitions, for they are distinct evidences of a progressive 
determination to regain material strength for that contest, which 
' €an never cease until we are again free. 

- It is true our masters may reap where we have strown, for 
they are hard men, but for the hour we may glean a pittance, 
to teach our children hopes of liberty. We have suffered ter- 















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ribly and our bondage is harrowing to our souls, but in truth we — 
are but in the infancy of national life, and have felt only the first — 
agonics of growing nations; the hereditary bondsmen we leave — 
behind us, will have far more than our suffering, and it is surely — 
our duty now to give the poor remnant of our lives to mitigat- — 
ing on them the penalties of our sad failure. We are the sons 
and brothers of freemen, but by the dispensation of God we — 
are the sires of slaves, who may never, except in the traditions © 
of their fathers, know what liberty is. Every child now to be 
born in South Carolina inherits a viler slavery than that which — 
came to the negro in the jungles of Africa, for one is the slave 
of nature, the other is the young eagle torn from his nest and ~ 
chained to the block. z) 
It is our duty to prepare them for their emancipation, by 
teaching them to think, to work, to pray, and never to forget 
the traditions of their fathers. Strange things have happened — 
in the old world in 1870. Stranger things may happenin the — 
new world before 1880. Will it be stranger for us to be free — 
than it is for us to be slaves ? Is it not very, very strange for — 
us to be the slaves of New England—too strange to last! Let — 
us, then, in these bad days shun every compromise which en- 
dangers the natural bonds of human society, or invades the ~ 
sympathies of the human heart, or violates the fixed and mani- 
fest laws of God and Nature. 
All such compromises are foolish, unnatural and fatally wicked, — 
and will surely perpetuate our woe andshame. The poor, silly 
and sinful fools who have made such compromises, will suffer 
the pangs of grievous remorse when the truth again prevails, 
Let us now, writhing in poverty and sorrow, pity those who 
have betrayed our faith. ; 
Our duties, then, are to our dead as having died in honor; to 
our children as living in hope; and to ourselves as a people 
held in bondage by a fierce, relentless and vulgar tyranny. It — 
is that tyranny which sets over us what it calls its constitu-— 
tions and governments, that it may rule and degrade us by its” 
own vile agencies—that tyranny which fills the College Chapel 
with its ruffian mercenaries, and the State House with the filthy 
things it shamelessly calls a Legislature; Executive and Judi- — 
ciary so foul that when force or necessity drags us among them ~ 
we sicken and shudder at the stench; that tyranny which has © 
turned the once peaceful and beautiful streets of this fair town 
into a stalking place for thieves and their minions. There be — 
some who we have honored, who go up to that State House and ~ 
lick the feet of their Governor, and Senators and Judges, for by — 
these names, with grotesque profanity, they salute each other, — 
and accept their garbage. But they are vermin who are always 
bred in corruption ; who could not breathe in the pure life of — 
our old days. Let them now live in their rottenness; our duty — 














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is religiously to shun these places, and give ourselves to the 
stern necessities of food and shelter for our wives and children ; 
to keep them from the pollution, and to cherish iu our inmost 
souls the undying hope, the abiding faith of a coming deliver- 
ance. 
_ But for others beside the surviving soldiers, there are solemn 
duties. Yes. for these, our women, the saddest, sweetest, holi- 
estduty. It is, that all our women, mothers, wives, widows and 
maidens—the saintly soldiers of the altar, the loom, and the 
hospital—shall for all time to come, on each returning tenth of 
May, gather the most fragrant spring flowers, and dressed in 
‘mourning robes, in silent procession go to our burying places, 
and call the most venerable minister of God, who on the battle 
field has heard the last message of our brothers to us and them, 
and ask him to invoke there the very presence of the God of 
‘Truth and Purity, while the women lay the flowers on the graves 
of the Confederate dead. No human speech then; no human 
song; nothing, nothing there, but the silent tears of mourning 
women! 
‘¢ Ye shall have peace, with liberty at last, 

Your bruises all be healed, your joys restored, 

Only believe the promise of the Lord.” 











